Directional light extraction from thin-film resonant cavity light-emitting diodes with a photonic crystal
- 8 December 2008
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 93 (23) , 231109
Abstract
We report directional light extraction from AlGaInP thin-film resonant cavity light emitting diodes (RCLEDs) with shallow photonic crystals (PhCs). Diffraction of guided modes into the light extraction cone enhances the light extraction by a factor of 2.6 compared to unstructured RCLEDs, where the farfields still show higher directionality than Lambertian emitters. The external quantum efficiency is 15.5% to air and 26% with encapsulation, respectively. The PhC-RCLEDs are also more stable to a temperature induced wavelength shift than unstructured RCLEDs.Keywords
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