• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.441-448
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• 2002

The electrical properties of the GaN-based green light emitting diodes(LEDs) with the Mg-doped p-GaN layer activated in $N_2$ or $O_2$ ambient have been compared. For the $N_2$ -ambient activation the current-voltage behavior of LEDs has been found to be improved when the Mg dopants activation was performed in the higher temperature. However, for the $O_2$-ambient activation the current-voltage characteristic has been observed to be enhanced when the Mg dopants activation was carried out in the lower temperature. The minimum forward voltage at 20mA was obtained to be 4.8 V for LEDs with the p-GaN layer activated at $900^{\circ}C$ in the $N_2$ ambient and 4.5V for LEDs with the p-GaN layer treated at $700^{\circ}C$ in the $O_2$ambient, repectively. The forward voltage reduction of the LEDs treated in the $O_2$-ambient may be related to the oxygen co-doping of the p-GaN layer during the activation process. The $O_2$ -ambient activation process is useful for the enhancement of the LED performance as well as the fabrication process since this process can activate the Mg dopants in the low temperature.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.24-29
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• 2001

GaN films were grown for various Mg doping concentrations in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Below the Mg concentration of 10$^{19}$ ㎤, the thermally annealed sample shows the compensated phase to n-type GaN in Hall measurement. In the MB concentration of 4$\times$10$^{19}$ ㎤ corresponding to the hole carrier concentration of 2.6$\times$1$^{19}$ ㎤ there exists a photoluminescence center of the donor and the acceptor pair transition of the 3.28-eV band. This center is correlated with the defects for a shallow donor of the $V_{Ga}$ and for an acceptor of $Mg_{Ga}$ . The acceptor level shows the binding energy of 0.2-0.25 eV, which was observed by the photon energy of the photocurrent signal of 3.02-3.31 eV. Above the Mg concentration of 4$\times$10$^{19}$ ㎤, both the Mg doping level and Mg concentration were saturated and there Is a photoluminescence center of a deep donor and an acceptor pair transition of the 2.76-eV blue band.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.591-596
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• 2002

In this work, epitaxial GaN is grown on sapphire substrate in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. Deliberate oxygen doping of GaN grown by MOVPE has been studied. The electron concentration increased as a function of the square root of the oxygen partial Pressure. Oxygen is a shallow donor with a thermal ionization energy of $27\pm2 meV$ measured by temperature dependent Hall effects. A compensation ratio of $\theta$=0.3~0.4 was determined from Hall effect measurements. The formation energy of $O_N$ of $E^F$ =1.3eV determined from the experimental data, is lower than the theoretically predicted vague.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.270-279
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• 2002

We present a self-consistent numerical method for calculating the conduction-band profile and subband structure of AlGaN/GaN single heterojunctions. The subband calculations take into account the piezoelectric and spontaneous polarization effect and the Hartree and exchange-correlation interaction. We calculate the dependence of electron sheet concentration and subband energies on various structural parameters, such as the width and Al mole fraction of AlGaN, the density of donor impurities in AlGaN, and the density of acceptor impurities in GaN, as well as the electron temperature. The electron sheet concentration was sensitively dependent on the Al mole fraction and width of the AlGaN layer and the doping density of donor impurities in the AlGaN. The calculated results of electron sheet concentration as a function of the Al mole fraction are in excellent agreement with some experimental data available in the literature.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.53-53
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• 2003

지금까지 GaN 계열 물질의 양자점 소자 관련 연구 동향을 양자점 구현 방식을 중점으로 하여 살펴보았다. GaN 계열 물질의 양자점을 구현하는 방법은 S-K 성장모드를 이용한 자발형성 양자점 구현법, anti-surfactaant를 이용하는 방법, selective epitaxy를 이용한 양자점 구현법 등이 시도되고 있다. 현재 GaN 계열 물질의 양자점 소자 연구는 아직 충분한 연구가 이루어지짖 않은 관계로 optical pumping을 통한 LD lasing 구현에 머무르고 있는 실정이다. 후 소자로의 응용을 위해서는 여러 가지 문제점이 해결되어야 한다. 우선 우수한 결정성을 지니는 양자점의 성장이 이루어져야 한다. 이외에도 각 구현 방법 별로 GaN 및 AlGaN 양자점 성장용 기판으로 많이 사용되는 높은 조성의 AlGaN 및 AlN의 doping 기술 개발, patterning 기술의 개선을 통한 미세 공정 개발 등의 여러 가지 과제들이 남아 있다. 그러나, 양자점이 지진 우수한 특성과 이를 이용한 높은 응용 가능성을 고려할 때 GaN 계열 양자점 소자의 전망은 밝다고 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2002

The effects of the isoelectronic AI-doping of GaN grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition were investigated for the first time using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Hall measurements, photoluminescence (PL), and time-resolved PL. When a certain amount of Al was incorporated into the GaN films, the room temperature photoluminescence intensity of the films was approximately two orders larger than that of the undoped GaN. More importantly, the electron mobility significantly increased from 130 for the undoped sample to $500\textrm{cm}^2/Vs$ for the sample grown at a TMAl flow rate of $10{\mu}mol/min$, while the unintentional background concentration only increased slightly relative to the TMAl flow. The incorporation of Al as an isoelectronic dopant into GaN was easy during MOCVD growth and significantly improved the optical and electrical properties of the film. This was believed to result from a reduction in the dislocation-related non-radiative recombination centers or certain other defects due to the isoelectronic Al-doping.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.233-236
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• 2012

In this paper, the output characteristics of GaN-based LED considering blocking layer design variables are analyzed. The basic structure of the LED consists of active region of GaN barrier and InGaN quantum well between AlGaN EBL(Electron Blocking Layer) and AlGaN HBL(Hole Blocking Layer) on GaN buffer layer. The output power, internal quantum efficiency characteristics of LED active region considering Al mole fraction of EBL, thickness of EBL, Al mole fraction of HBL and doping concentration of HBL are analyzed using ISE-TCAD.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.213-217
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• 1997

We have measured photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved PL in doped-GaAs. As increasing doping concentration, the PL spectra of n-type GaAs shift to higher energies while the PL spectra of p-type GaAs shift to lower energies than the bandgap of the undoped GaAs. The contribution of the Burstein-Moss effect overrules the band-gap narrowing in n-type GaAs, contrary to p-type GaAs. The PL rise time and decay time become shorter as increasing doping concentration. The PL rise and decay time in doped-GaAs depend on the type of majority carriers and their concentrations, which imply that the carrier-carrier interaction plays an important role in the energy relaxation processes.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.509-517
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• 2003

지금까지 GaN 계열 물질의 양자점 소자 관련 연구 동향을 양자점 구현 방식을 중점으로 하여 살펴보았다. GaN 계열 물질의 양자점을 구현하는 방법은 S-K 성장모드를 이용한 자발형성 양자점 구현법, anti-surfactaant를 이용하는 방법, selective epitaxy를 이용한 양자점 구현법 등이 시도되고 있다. 현재 GaN 계열 물질의 양자점 소자 연구는 아직 충분한 연구가 이루어지짖 않은 관계로 optical pumping을 통한 LD lasing 구현에 머무르고 있는 실정이다. 후 소자로의 응용을 위해서는 여러 가지 문제점이 해결되어야 한다. 우선 우수한 결정성을 지니는 양자점의 성장이 이루어져야 한다. 이외에도 각 구현 방법 별로 GaN 및 AlGaN 양자점 성장용 기판으로 많이 사용되는 높은 조성의 AlGaN 및 AlN의 doping 기술 개발, patterning 기술의 개선을 통한 미세 공정 개발 등의 여러 가지 과제들이 남아 있다. 그러나, 양자점이 지진 우수한 특성과 이를 이용한 높은 응용 가능성을 고려할 때 GaN 계열 양자점 소자의 전망은 밝다고 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.251-254
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• 2012

In this paper, the output characteristics of GaN-based LED considering quantum well structure are analyzed. The basic structure of the LED consists of active region of GaN barrier and InGaN quantum well between AlGaN EBL(Electron Blocking Layer) and AlGaN HBL(Hole Blocking Layer) on GaN buffer layer. The output power, internal quantum efficiency characteristics of LED active region considering thickness of quantum well, number of quantum well and doping of barrier are analyzed using ISE-TCAD.