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A light-emitting diode epitaxial wafer and its preparation method

A technology for light emitting diodes and epitaxial wafers, applied in the field of diodes, can solve the problems of easy migration, low electron mass, thermal expansion coefficient mismatch, etc., and achieve the effects of improving luminous efficiency, improving internal quantum efficiency, and reducing stress and defects

Active Publication Date: 2016-06-01
HC SEMITEK ZHEJIANG CO LTD
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[0005] Due to the small mass of electrons, they are easy to migrate. Driven by the electric field, they may be too fast to cross the multi-quantum well layer and migrate to the P-type layer, resulting in leakage of light-emitting diodes and reducing the luminous efficiency of light-emitting diodes.
In addition, the lattice constant between the GaN and sapphire substrates is relatively large, and the thermal expansion coefficients are mismatched. Strong stress and a large number of dislocations and defects will be generated at the interface, and these dislocations and defects will extend to the surface of the epitaxial wafer. Affects the internal quantum efficiency of light-emitting diodes

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[0029] see figure 1 Embodiment 1 of the present invention provides a light-emitting diode epitaxial wafer, which includes a substrate layer 1, a buffer layer 2 covering the substrate layer 1, an undoped GaN layer 3, an N-type contact layer 4, N-type extension layer 5 , multiple quantum well layer 6 and P-type layer 7 .

[0030] which, combined with figure 2 , N-type extension layer 5 is a superlattice structure formed alternately by several first sublayers a and several second sublayers b. The first sublayer a uses N-type doped Al x Ga 1-x N is used as a growth material, 0<x<1. The second sublayer b uses N-type doped GaN as a growth material.

[0031] Specifically, the concentration of Al in the first sublayer a of each layer is constant and the concentration of Al in the first sublayer a of each layer is different, from the side near the N-type contact layer 4 of the N-type extension layer 5 to the N-type On the side of the extension layer 5 close to the multi-quantum ...

Embodiment 2

[0037] see image 3 Embodiment 2 of the present invention provides a method for preparing a light emitting diode epitaxial wafer, which is suitable for the light emitting diode epitaxial wafer provided in embodiment 1. The method includes:

[0038] 201 : growing a buffer layer 2 on the substrate layer 1 .

[0039] Specifically, at a temperature of 625° C., a layer of GaN with a thickness of 30 nm is grown on the substrate layer 1 .

[0040] It is easy to know that before this step, the method further includes: cleaning the surface of the substrate layer 1 .

[0041] Specifically, the substrate layer 1 was exposed to H at 1300°C 2 The heat treatment was carried out under the atmosphere for 10 minutes, and the surface was cleaned.

[0042] 202: growing a non-doped GaN layer 3 .

[0043] Specifically, the temperature is increased to 1230° C., and a layer of non-doped GaN with a thickness of 2 μm is grown on the buffer layer 2 .

[0044] 203: growing the N-type contact layer 4....

Embodiment 3

[0060] An embodiment of the present invention provides a light-emitting diode epitaxial wafer. The structure of the epitaxial wafer is basically the same as that of the epitaxial wafer in Embodiment 1. Figure 4 and Figure 5 , the concentration of Al in several first sublayers a is the same, and the concentration of Al in each first sublayer a changes regularly and uniformly.

[0061] Specifically, the concentration of Al changes regularly and uniformly in one of the following ways: uniform increase (see Figure 4 ), decreasing uniformly (see Figure 5 ), increase uniformly and then decrease uniformly, decrease uniformly and then increase uniformly, increase uniformly and then decrease uniformly, finally increase uniformly, decrease uniformly, increase uniformly and finally decrease uniformly, increase uniformly first and decrease uniformly A uniform change is performed with a small change period, and a uniform change is performed with a uniform decrease and then a uniform ...

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Abstract

The invention discloses a light emitting diode epitaxial wafer and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of diodes. The epitaxial wafer comprises a substrate layer, a buffer layer, a non-doped GaN layer, an N-typed contacting layer, an N-typed expanding layer, a multiple quantum well layer and a P-typed layer, wherein the buffer layer, the non-doped GaN layer, the N-typed contacting layer, the N-typed expanding layer, the multiple quantum well layer and the P-typed layer are sequentially coated on the substrate layer. The N-typed expanding layer is in a superlattice structure which is formed by a plurality of first sublayers and a plurality of second sublayers in an alternating mode. N-typed doped Al x Ga l-x N is adopted to be growing materials by the first sublayers, wherein the x is larger than zero but smaller than one. N-typed doped GaN is adopted to be used as growing materials by the second sublayers. Due to the fact that the N-typed expanding layer is additionally arranged, speed of electron is reduced before the electron enters the multiple quantum well layer, meanwhile, the situation that partial holes are directly transited into the N-typed layer is avoided, and therefore the electron and the holes are enabled to fully emit light in the multiple quantum well layer in a composite mode, and luminous efficiency of a light emitting diode is improved. In addition, internal quantum efficiency of the light emitting diode is improved due to the superlattice structure of the N-typed expanding layer.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of diodes, in particular to a light-emitting diode epitaxial wafer and a preparation method thereof. Background technique [0002] A light-emitting diode chip is a solid-state semiconductor device that can directly convert electricity into light, and is the core component of a light-emitting diode. A light-emitting diode chip includes a GaN-based epitaxial wafer, and electrodes fabricated on the epitaxial wafer. [0003] Existing epitaxial wafers generally include a substrate layer, a buffer layer covering the substrate layer, a non-doped GaN layer, an N-type contact layer, a multi-quantum well layer and a P-type layer in sequence. Wherein, the substrate layer is a sapphire substrate. Multiple quantum well layers are alternately formed by several quantum well layers and several quantum barrier layers. [0004] In the process of realizing the present invention, the inventor finds that there are at least th...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01L33/32H01L33/00
Inventor 万林魏世祯
Owner HC SEMITEK ZHEJIANG CO LTD