Stress-Relaxation in III-Nitride Based Semipolar Lasers
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Materials
- Degree Supervisor:
- Shuji Nakamura
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2013
- Issued Date:
- 2013
- Topics:
- Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, General
- Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
- Description:
Semipolar growth orientations of wurtzite III-nitrides have fundamental advantages over the polar c-plane growth orientation for fabrication of visible long wavelength light emitting devices, e.g. light emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs), due to a reduction of polarization-related electric fields in the quantum-wells (QWs). This results in devices with higher radiative recombination rates and reduced blueshift in the electroluminescence wavelength with increasing carrier injection. Growth of semipolar heterostructures, however, will often result in dislocation slip on the inclined (0001) basal plane and the formation of misfit dislocations (MDs) at highly mismatched heterointerfaces. Dislocations have been shown to act as nonradiative carrier sinks in GaN and its alloys and can therefore be extremely detrimental to optoelectronic device performance if located in proximity to the active region. As a result, optical waveguide design for defect-free semipolar AlInGaN LDs structures is greatly constrained within the limits for MD formation. We propose a two pronged approach in the III-nitride LD epitaxial growth: Growth of coherently strained LD structure on highly inclined semipolar {30 31} growth orientation with high critical thickness for stress relaxation. Growth of intentionally stress relaxed LD structure on lowly inclined semipolar (1122) growth orientation with low critical thickness for stress relaxation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3602096
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3tb151k
- ISBN:
- 9781303538933
- Catalog System Number:
- 990040924610203776
- Copyright:
- Po Shan Hsu, 2013
- Rights:
In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Po Shan Hsu
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