Enhancement of light extraction from resonant cavity light-emitting diodes using a 2-D grating embossed in TiO2 Sol-Gel

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 941-943

  Rao, Jing ^a   Winfield, Richard ^a   O'Brien, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

2 D grating; High refractive index sol gel; Light extraction efficiency; Resonant cavity light emitting diode (RCLED); Soft embossing

Indexed keywords

2-D GRATING; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX SOL-GEL; LIGHT EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; RESONANT CAVITY LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (RCLED); SOFT EMBOSSING;

CAVITY RESONATORS; CURRENT DENSITY; DIODES; GELATION; GELS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT REFRACTION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 67649631548     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2020808     Document Type: Article

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