中国物理B ›› 2013, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (11): 117804-117804.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/11/117804

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Degradation behaviors of high power GaN-based blue light emitting diodes

钟灿涛, 于彤军, 颜建, 陈志忠, 张国义   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-04-16 修回日期:2013-06-07 出版日期:2013-09-28 发布日期:2013-09-28
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB301905 and 2013CB328705), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2009AA03A198), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61076012 and 61376012).

Degradation behaviors of high power GaN-based blue light emitting diodes

Zhong Can-Tao (钟灿涛), Yu Tong-Jun (于彤军), Yan Jian (颜建), Chen Zhi-Zhong (陈志忠), Zhang Guo-Yi (张国义)   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2013-04-16 Revised:2013-06-07 Online:2013-09-28 Published:2013-09-28
  • Contact: Yu Tong-Jun E-mail:tongjun@pku.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB301905 and 2013CB328705), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2009AA03A198), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61076012 and 61376012).

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摘要： The degradation mechanism of high power InGaN/GaN blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) is investigated in this paper. The LED samples were stressed at room temperature under 350-mA injection current for about 400 h. The light output power of the LEDs decreased by 35% during the first 100 h and then remained almost unchanged, and the reverse current at-5 V increased from 10-9 A to 10-7 A during the aging process. The power law, whose meaning was re-illustrated by the improved rate equation, was used to analyze the light output power-injection current (L–I) curves. The analysis results indicate that nonradiative recombination, Auger recombination, and the third-order term of carriers overflow increase during the aging process, all of which may be important reasons for the degradation of LEDs. Besides, simulating L–I curves with the improved rate equation reveal that higher-than-third-order terms of carriers overflow may not be the main degradation mechanism, because they change slightly when the LED is stressed.

关键词: light emitting diodes, degradation, rate equation

Abstract: The degradation mechanism of high power InGaN/GaN blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) is investigated in this paper. The LED samples were stressed at room temperature under 350-mA injection current for about 400 h. The light output power of the LEDs decreased by 35% during the first 100 h and then remained almost unchanged, and the reverse current at-5 V increased from 10-9 A to 10-7 A during the aging process. The power law, whose meaning was re-illustrated by the improved rate equation, was used to analyze the light output power-injection current (L–I) curves. The analysis results indicate that nonradiative recombination, Auger recombination, and the third-order term of carriers overflow increase during the aging process, all of which may be important reasons for the degradation of LEDs. Besides, simulating L–I curves with the improved rate equation reveal that higher-than-third-order terms of carriers overflow may not be the main degradation mechanism, because they change slightly when the LED is stressed.

Key words: light emitting diodes, degradation, rate equation

中图分类号:  (Electroluminescence)

  • 78.60.Fi
78.67.De (Quantum wells) 85.60.Jb (Light-emitting devices)