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A nanoporous AlN layer patterned by anodic aluminum oxide and its application as a buffer layer in a GaN-based
Lung-Chien Chen1, Chih-Kai Wang, Jenn-Bin Huang
1Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, sector 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China. ocean@ntut.edu.tw
Abstract:
This work investigates a nanoporous aluminum nitride (AlN) layer prepared using an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) process and its application as a buffer layer for a GaN-based light-emitting diode (LED) fabricated on sapphire substrate. Following this AAO process, the average pore spacing and pore diameter of the nanoporous AlN layer were in the ranges 180-200 nm and 100-150 nm, respectively. The light output power of the GaN-based LED with a nanoporous AlN layer was about 53% higher than that of a GaN-based LED without a nanoporous AlN layer at an injection current of 20 mA. At an injection current of 80 mA, the light output power was increased by about 34%.
