Electro-thermally activated degradation of blu-ray GaN-based laser diodes

IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 424-428

  Meneghini, Matteo ^a   Meneghesso, Gaudenzio ^a   Trivellin, Nicola ^a   Trevisanello, Lorenzo ^a   Orita, Kenji ^b   Yuri, Maasaki ^b   Zanoni, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degradation; Diffusion; Gallium nitride; Laser diode; Reliability

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; LASER DIODE; OPTICAL POWERS; RELIABILITY PHYSICS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 51549106544     PISSN: 15417026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RELPHY.2008.4558922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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