• 한국진공학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2006

전류 차단층으로서 AlAs 자연산화층 ($AlO_x$) 을 갖는 InGaAs 양자점 (quantum dot) 구조를 분자선 박막 성장법 (molecular-beam epitaxy)과 습식 산화법 (wet oxidation)을 이용하여 제작하였고, 이들 구조의 열처리에 따른 광학적인 특성 변화를 photoluminescence (PL), PL excitation, 그리고 공간 분해능을 갖는 micro-PL을 이용하여 분석하였다. 습식 산화와 열처리 과정을 통해 intermixing된 InGaAs 양자점 영역에서 PL 특성을 조사한 결과, intermixing 되지 않은 영역보다 높은 에너지에서 완만한 PL peak이 추가적으로 관측되었다. 산화되지 않은 (non-oxided) AlAs 아래에 있는 InGaAs 양자점 영역에서는 약 1.1 eV에서 PL emission이 주로 관측되었으나, $AlO_x$와 $SiN_x$에 의해 intermixing 된 InGaAs 양자점 영역에서는 각각 약 1.16 eV와 $1.18{\sim}1.20$ eV 에서의 PL emission도 함께 관측되었다. 실험 결과, $AlO_x$층이 있는 InGaAs 양자점 영역이 산화 되지 않은 AlAs층이 있는 영역에 비해서 intermixing 효과가 크게 작용함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.174-175
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• 2012

(In, Ga) N-based III-nitride semiconductor materials have been viewed as the most promising materials for the applications of blue and green light emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes. Although the InGaN alloy can have wide range of visible wavelength by changing the In composition, it is very hard to grow high quality epilayers of In-rich InGaN because of the thermal instability as well as the large lattice and thermal mismatches. In order to avoid phase separation of InGaN, various kinds of structures of InGaN have been studied. If high-quality In-rich InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well (MQW) structures are available, it is expected to achieve highly efficient phosphor-free white LEDs. In this study, we proposed a novel InGaN double hetero-structure grown on GaN nano-pyramids to generate broad-band red-color emission with high quantum efficiency. In this work, we systematically studied the optical properties of the InGaN pyramid structures. The nano-sized hexagonal pyramid structures were grown on the n-type GaN template by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. SiNx mask was formed on the n-type GaN template with uniformly patterned circle pattern by laser holography. GaN pyramid structures were selectively grown on the opening area of mask by lateral over-growth followed by growth of InGaN/GaN double hetero-structure. The bird's eye-view scanning electron microscope (SEM) image shows that uniform hexagonal pyramid structures are well arranged. We showed that the pyramid structures have high crystal quality and the thickness of InGaN is varied along the height of pyramids via transmission electron microscope. Because the InGaN/GaN double hetero-structure was grown on the nano-pyramid GaN and on the planar GaN, simultaneously, we investigated the comparative study of the optical properties. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of nano-pyramid sample and planar sample measured at 10 K. Although the growth condition were exactly the same for two samples, the nano-pyramid sample have much lower energy emission centered at 615 nm, compared to 438 nm for planar sample. Moreover, nano-pyramid sample shows broad-band spectrum, which is originate from structural properties of nano-pyramid structure. To study thermal activation energy and potential fluctuation, we measured PL with changing temperature from 10 K to 300 K. We also measured PL with changing the excitation power from 48 ${\mu}W$ to 48 mW. We can discriminate the origin of the broad-band spectra from the defect-related yellow luminescence of GaN by carrying out PL excitation experiments. The nano-pyramid structure provided highly efficient broad-band red-color emission for the future applications of phosphor-free white LEDs.