High-temperature electroluminescence properties of InGaN red 40 × 40 <b> <i>μ</i> </b>m2 micro-light-emitting diodes with a peak external quantum efficiency of 3.2%
Panpan Li, Aurélien David, Hongjian Li, Haojun Zhang, Cheyenne Lynsky, Yunxuan Yang, Mike Iza, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars
Abstract
We study the high-temperature electroluminescence properties of 600 nm InGaN red 40 × 40 μm2 micro-light-emitting diodes (μLEDs) with a peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 3.2%. Temperature-dependent peak wavelength measurements show a low redshift of 0.05 nm/K. The injection efficiency improves with increasing temperature. The hot/cold (HC) factor is used to quantify the thermal droop: at 400 K, the EQE and wall-plug efficiency HC factors at 50 A/cm2 reach high values of 0.72 and 0.85, respectively. This demonstrates the robustness of InGaN red μLEDs up to high temperature, with a much-improved stability over conventional AlInGaP red μLEDs.