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Injection mechanisms in a III -nitride light-emitting diode as seen by self-emissive electron microscopy

Tanay Tak
Cameron Johnson
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Wan Ying Ho
Feng Wu
Steve Rebollo
Andreas Schmid
Yuh-Renn Wu
James Speck

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We report on the investigation of an electrically biased high efficiency green III-nitride light-emitting diode (LED) by electron emission microscopy (EEM) using a low-energy electron microscope (LEEM). The surface of the LED was activated to negative electron affinity via deposition of a submonolayer of Cs. With the illumination column of the LEEM turned off, upon electrical injection of the LED, we directly image the hot electrons generated by eeh Auger-Meitner nonradiative processes that diffuse through the top p-GaN layer and emit out the surface of the biased LED. By determining the source of emitted electrons using complementary electron emission spectroscopy measurements, EEM allows us to effectively map the carrier density within the LED. Using EEM, we observed nonelectron emitting regions with a density of approximately ~3 × 108cm−2, identified as V-shaped defects (V-defects). This is confirmed through the corresponding dark spots of panchromatic cathodoluminescence measurements of the same sample and by plan-view transmission electron microscopy. The absence of electron emission at the sidewall of the V-defects can be attributed to several factors, including reduced carrier density in the sidewall quantum wells due to carriers traveling fast through the semipolar sidewalls before being injected into the planar quantum wells, the reduced population of hot electrons surviving diffusion through the thicker p-GaN filling in the V-defect before emission onto vacuum, and a smaller Auger-Meitner coefficient for the low In content semipolar sidewall quantum wells. The stronger electron emission observed at the ridges of most V-defects compared to the planar quantum well regions indicates larger local injected carrier densities, confirming that V-defect sidewalls allow for strong lateral carrier injection when compared to the weaker vertical injection away from the V-defect as evidenced by the weaker electron emission intensity away from the V-defects
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hal-04365353 , version 1 (28-12-2023)

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Tanay Tak, Cameron Johnson, Wan Ying Ho, Feng Wu, Mylène Sauty, et al.. Injection mechanisms in a III -nitride light-emitting diode as seen by self-emissive electron microscopy. Physical Review Applied, 2023, 20 (6), pp.064045. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.064045⟩. ⟨hal-04365353⟩
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