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The 2020 UV emitter roadmap
2020, Amano, Hiroshi, Collazo, Ramón, De Santi, Carlo, Einfeldt, Sven, Funato, Mitsuru, Glaab, Johannes, Hagedorn, Sylvia, Hirano, Akira, Hirayama, Hideki, Ishii, Ryota, Kashima, Yukio, Kawakami, Yoichi, Kirste, Ronny, Kneissl, Michael, Martin, Robert, Mehnke, Frank, Meneghini, Matteo, Ougazzaden, Abdallah, Parbrook, Peter J., Rajan, Siddharth, Reddy, Pramod, Römer, Friedhard, Friedhard, Jan, Sarkar, Biplab, Scholz, Ferdinand, Schowalter, Leo J, Shields, Philip, Sitar, Zlatko, Sulmoni, Luca, Wang, Tao, Wernicke, Tim, Weyers, Markus, Witzigmann, Bernd, Wu, Yuh-Renn, Wunderer, Thomas, Zhang, Yuewei
Solid state UV emitters have many advantages over conventional UV sources. The (Al,In,Ga)N material system is best suited to produce LEDs and laser diodes from 400 nm down to 210 nm - due to its large and tuneable direct band gap, n- and p-doping capability up to the largest bandgap material AlN and a growth and fabrication technology compatible with the current visible InGaN-based LED production. However AlGaN based UV-emitters still suffer from numerous challenges compared to their visible counterparts that become most obvious by consideration of their light output power, operation voltage and long term stability. Most of these challenges are related to the large bandgap of the materials. However, the development since the first realization of UV electroluminescence in the 1970s shows that an improvement in understanding and technology allows the performance of UV emitters to be pushed far beyond the current state. One example is the very recent realization of edge emitting laser diodes emitting in the UVC at 271.8 nm and in the UVB spectral range at 298 nm. This roadmap summarizes the current state of the art for the most important aspects of UV emitters, their challenges and provides an outlook for future developments. © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Polarity Control in Group-III Nitrides beyond Pragmatism
2016, Mohn, Stefan, Stolyarchuk, Natalia, Markurt, Toni, Kirste, Ronny, Hoffmann, Marc P., Collazo, Ramón, Courville, Aimeric, Di Felice, Rosa, Sitar, Zlatko, Vennéguès, Philippe, Albrecht, Martin
Controlling the polarity of polar semiconductors on nonpolar substrates offers a wealth of device concepts in the form of heteropolar junctions. A key to realize such structures is an appropriate buffer-layer design that, in the past, has been developed by empiricism. GaN or ZnO on sapphire are prominent examples for that. Understanding the basic processes that mediate polarity, however, is still an unsolved problem. In this work, we study the structure of buffer layers for group-III nitrides on sapphire by transmission electron microscopy as an example. We show that it is the conversion of the sapphire surface into a rhombohedral aluminum-oxynitride layer that converts the initial N-polar surface to Al polarity. With the various AlxOyNz phases of the pseudobinary Al2O3-AlN system and their tolerance against intrinsic defects, typical for oxides, a smooth transition between the octahedrally coordinated Al in the sapphire and the tetrahedrally coordinated Al in AlN becomes feasible. Based on these results, we discuss the consequences for achieving either polarity and shed light on widely applied concepts in the field of group-III nitrides like nitridation and low-temperature buffer layers.