Introduction to Nitride Semiconductor Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes

ISBN-13: 9780748408368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 386 str.

Shuji Nakamura; Shigefusa F. Chichibu; Dr Shuji Nakamura

Opis

The potential of the blue laser device is being recognized for its development into a commercial lighting system using about a tenth of the power and with a thousand times the operating lifetime of a comparable conventional system. This work introduces the subject at a level suitable for graduate students. It covers the basic physics of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs) based on gallium nitride and related nitride semiconductors, and gives an outline of their structural, transport and optical properties, and the relevant device physics. It begins with the fundamentals, and covers both theory and experiment, as well as an examination of actual and potential device applications. Shuji Nakamura and Nichia Chemical Industries made the initial breakthroughs which have revealed blue LEDs and LDs as a sophisticated physical phenomenon and a commercial reality.

Spis treści

1. Basic Physics and Materials Technology of GaN LEDs and LDs 2. Two. Theoretical Analysis of Optical Gain Spectra 3. Electrical Conductivity Control 4. Crystal Defects and Device Performance in LEDs and LDs 5. Emission Mechanisms and Excitons GaN and InGaN Bulk and QWs 6. Life testing and degradation mechanisms in InGaN LEDs 7. Development and Future Prospects of InGaN lasers and LEDs. Appendix.

O autorze

Shuji Nakamura, Shigefusa F. Chichibu