Effect of surface texture and backside patterned reflector on the AlGaInP light-emitting diode: High extraction of waveguided light

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 636-641

  Lee, Ya Ju ^a   Lee, Chia Jung ^a   Chen, Chih Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AlGaInP; light emitting diode; waveguided light

Indexed keywords

ALGAINP; ALGAINP LEDS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION OF WAVEGUIDED LIGHT; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; LED CHIPS; NOVEL STRUCTURES; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TEXTURES; WAVEGUIDED LIGHT;

DIODES; LIGHT EMISSION; REFLECTION; SAPPHIRE; SILVER;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 79953174946     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2011.2107891     Document Type: Article

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