Enhanced light extraction from a GaN-based green light-emitting diode with hemicylindrical linear grating structure

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15818-15825

  Jin, Yuanhao ^a   Yang, Fenglei ^a   Li, Qunqing ^a   Zhu, Zhendong ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Fan, Shoushan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIODES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; OPTIMIZATION;

ETCHING METHOD; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; GRATING STRUCTURES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LED CHIPS; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LIGHT OUTPUT; LIGHT OUTPUT POWER; LIGHT-EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; LINEAR GRATINGS; STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84863746928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015818     Document Type: Article

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