Improved light extraction of nitride-based flip-chip light-emitting diodes via sapphire shaping and texturing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2623-2625

  Huang, Shao Hua ^a   Horng, Ray Hua ^a   Wen, Kuo Sheng ^a   Lin, Yi Feng ^a   Yen, Kuo Wei ^a   Wuu, Dong Sing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chip shaping; Flip chip; GaN; Light emitting diode (LED); Surface texturing

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHIP SHAPING; LIGHT EXTRACTION; SURFACE TEXTURING;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 33845786075     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.886823     Document Type: Article

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