Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Thin active physical layer which is – Heterojunction
Patent
1998-07-08
2000-06-06
Tran, Minh Loan
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Thin active physical layer which is
Heterojunction
257 13, 257 94, 257 96, 257101, H01L 3300
Patent
active
060721898
ABSTRACT:
A light-emitting diode or laser diode comprises a sapphire substrate and, grown on the substrate, a GaN buffer layer, an n-doped GaN contact layer, an n-doped (AlGa)N cladding layer, a Zn-doped (InGa)N active layer, a p-doped (AlGa)N cladding layer and a p-doped GaN contact layer. Graded layers are introduced at the interfaces between the cladding layers and both the contact layers and the active layer. The constituency of each graded layer is graded from one side to the other of the layer such that the layer is lattice matched with the adjacent layer on each side with the result that the strain at the interfaces between the layers is reduced and the possibility of deleterious dislocations being introduced at the interfaces is minimized. By removing or reducing such dislocations, the efficiency of the operation of the device is increased.
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Tran Minh Loan
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