A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B0.313Ga0.687N/B0.40Ga0.60N QWs and AlxGa1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate

Mussaab I. Niass; Muhammad Nawaz Sharif; Yifu Wang; Zhengqian Lu; Xue Chen; Yipu Qu; Zhongqiu Du; Fang Wang; Yuhuai Liu

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A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QWs and Al_xGa_1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate

Mussaab I. Niass^{1, 2, 3,}, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif^{1, 2, 3}, Yifu Wang^{1, 2, 3}, Zhengqian Lu^{1, 2, 3}, Xue Chen^{1, 2, 3}, Yipu Qu^{1, 2, 3}, Zhongqiu Du^{1, 2, 3}, Fang Wang^{1, 2, 3,} and Yuhuai Liu^{1, 2, 3,}

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Corresponding author: Mussaab I. Niass, mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn; Fang Wang, mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn; Yuhuai Liu, mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802

Abstract: In this paper, an ultraviolet C-band laser diode lasing at 277 nm composed of B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QW/QB heterostructure on Mg and Si-doped Al_xGa_1–xN layers was designed, as well as a lowest reported substitutional accepter and donor concentration up to N_A = 5.0 × 10¹⁷ cm^–3 and N_D = 9.0 × 10¹⁶ cm^–3 for deep ultraviolet lasing was achieved. The structure was assumed to be grown over bulk AlN substrate and operate under a continuous wave at room temperature. Although there is an emphasizing of the suitability for using boron nitride wide band gap in the deep ultraviolet region, there is still a shortage of investigation about the ternary BGaN in aluminum-rich AlGaN alloys. Based on the simulation, an average local gain in quantum wells of 1946 cm^–1, the maximum emitted power of 2.4 W, the threshold current of 500 mA, a slope efficiency of 1.91 W/A as well as an average DC resistance for the V–I curve of (0.336 Ω) had been observed. Along with an investigation regarding different EBL, designs were included with tapered and inverse tapered structure. Therefore, it had been found a good agreement with the published results for tapered EBL design, with an overweighting for a proposed inverse tapered EBL design.

Key words: laser diodes, semiconducting aluminum compounds, heterojunction semiconductor devices, quantum wells, semiconducting ternary compounds

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[1]	Li D B, Sun X J, Guo C L. AlGaN photonics: recent advances in materials and ultraviolet devices. Adv Opt Photon, 2018, 10, 43 doi: 10.1364/AOP.10.000043
[2]	Chowdhury M Z, Hossan M T, Islam A, et al. A comparative survey of optical wireless technologies: architectures and applications. IEEE Access, 2018, 6, 9819 doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2792419
[3]	Chen J R, Ko T S, Su P Y, et al. Numerical study on optimization of active layer structures for GaN/AlGaN multiple-quantum-well laser diodes. J Lightwave Technol, 2008, 26, 3155 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2008.926939
[4]	Watanabe T, Niiyama T, Miya K, et al. Far-ultraviolet plane-emission handheld device based on hexagonal boron nitride. Nat Photonics, 2009, 3, 591 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.167
[5]	Watanabe K, Taniguchi T. Hexagonal boron nitride as a new ultraviolet luminescent material and its application. Int J Appl Ceram Technol, 2011, 8, 977 doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2011.02626.x
[6]	Kawanishi H, Haruyama M, Shirai T, et al. (BAlGa)N quaternary system and epitaxial growth on (0001) 6H-SiC substrate by low-pressure MO-VPE. Proc SPIE, 1997, 2994, 52 doi: 10.1117/12.275585
[7]	Kurimoto M, Takano T, Yamamoto J, et al. Growth of BGaN/AlGaN multi-quantum-well structure by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. J Cryst Growth, 2000, 221, 378 doi: 10.1016/S0022-0248(00)00717-X
[8]	Honda T, Kurimoto M, Shibata M, et al. Excitonic emission of BGaN grown on (0 0 0 1) 6H-SiC by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. J Lumin, 2000, 87–89, 1274 doi: 10.1016/S0022-2313(99)00565-7
[9]	Dahal J L R, Majety S, Pantha B N, et al. Epitaxially grown semiconducting hexagonal boron nitride as a deep ultraviolet photonic materia. Appl Phys Lett, 2011, 98, 211110 doi: 10.1063/1.3593958
[10]	Majety J L S, Cao X K, Dahal R, et al. Epitaxial growth and demonstration of hexagonal BN/AlGaN p–n junctions for deep ultraviolet photonics. Appl Phys Lett, 2012, 100, 061121 doi: 10.1063/1.3682523
[11]	Jiang H X, Lin J Y. Hexagonal boron nitride for deep ultraviolet photonic devices. Semicond Sci Technol, 2014, 29, 1 doi: 10.1088/0268-1242/29/8/084003
[12]	Satter M M, Kim H J, Lochner Z, et al. Design and analysis of 250-nm AlInN laser diodes on AlN substrates using tapered electron blocking layers. IEEE J Quantum Electron, 2012, 48, 703 doi: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2190496
[13]	Sailo L, Ralte R L, Lalchhuanawmi M, et al. Calculation of the band structure and band splitting energy of boron compounds (BX, X = N, P, As, Sb) using modified Becke-Johnson potential. IOSR-JAP, 2016, 8, 1

Fig. 1. (Color online) The optical intensity confined within the active region for optical confining factor (OCF) of 40.4%.

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Fig. 2. (Color online) Illustrate the L–I and V–I electrical characteristic curves for the conventional EBL, tapered EBL, without EBL and inverse tapered EBL designs.

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Fig. 3. (Color online) Schematic illustrations for the right half of simulated structure, real cavity length are 1500 µm.

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Fig. 5. (Color online) Showing the relationship between the averages calculated electron concentrations within the P-Cladding layer for different accepter and donor concentrations for the four EBL designs.

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Fig. 4. (Color online) Showing the (a) L–I and (b) V–I curve for the two LD structure for the conventional EBL, tapered EBL, without EBL and inverse tapered EBL designs with the N_A = 5 × 10²⁰ cm^–3, N_D = 9 × 10¹⁹ cm^–3.

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Fig. 6. (Color online) Vertical cut view for the LD structure that illustrates the band diagram for the active region and EBL layer, with the N_A = 5 × 10¹⁷ cm^–3, N_D = 9 × 10¹⁶ cm^–3 for the four different EBL layers.

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Table 1. The contrived LD structure at room temperature for B_0.313GaN/B_0.40GaN MQW (p, p-type Mg-dopant; n, n-type Si-dopant; i, intrinsic/no-doping; CLL, cladding layer; WG, wave guide; EBL-IT, electron blocking layer-inverse tapered).

Layer material	Layer function	Thickness (nm)	Real refractive index
p-Al_0.87GaN	p-WG	500	2.20
p-Al_0.71–0.77GaN	p-CLL	150	2.263–2.239
i-Al_0.80–0.65GaN	EBL-IT	10	2.228–2.286
p-Al_0.57GaN	Spacer-1	10	2.317
i-B_0.40GaN × (3)	QB	5	2.343
i-B_0.313GaN × (2)	QW	4	2.286
n-Al_0.61–0.58GaN	Spacer-2	10	2.30–2.313
n-Al_0.77–0.71GaN	n-CLL	100	2.24–2.63
n-Al_0.77GaN	n-WG-1	685	2.24
n-Al_0.77GaN	n-WG-2	1800	2.24
i-AlN	Substrate	2000	2.15

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[1]	Li D B, Sun X J, Guo C L. AlGaN photonics: recent advances in materials and ultraviolet devices. Adv Opt Photon, 2018, 10, 43 doi: 10.1364/AOP.10.000043
[2]	Chowdhury M Z, Hossan M T, Islam A, et al. A comparative survey of optical wireless technologies: architectures and applications. IEEE Access, 2018, 6, 9819 doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2792419
[3]	Chen J R, Ko T S, Su P Y, et al. Numerical study on optimization of active layer structures for GaN/AlGaN multiple-quantum-well laser diodes. J Lightwave Technol, 2008, 26, 3155 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2008.926939
[4]	Watanabe T, Niiyama T, Miya K, et al. Far-ultraviolet plane-emission handheld device based on hexagonal boron nitride. Nat Photonics, 2009, 3, 591 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.167
[5]	Watanabe K, Taniguchi T. Hexagonal boron nitride as a new ultraviolet luminescent material and its application. Int J Appl Ceram Technol, 2011, 8, 977 doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2011.02626.x
[6]	Kawanishi H, Haruyama M, Shirai T, et al. (BAlGa)N quaternary system and epitaxial growth on (0001) 6H-SiC substrate by low-pressure MO-VPE. Proc SPIE, 1997, 2994, 52 doi: 10.1117/12.275585
[7]	Kurimoto M, Takano T, Yamamoto J, et al. Growth of BGaN/AlGaN multi-quantum-well structure by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. J Cryst Growth, 2000, 221, 378 doi: 10.1016/S0022-0248(00)00717-X
[8]	Honda T, Kurimoto M, Shibata M, et al. Excitonic emission of BGaN grown on (0 0 0 1) 6H-SiC by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. J Lumin, 2000, 87–89, 1274 doi: 10.1016/S0022-2313(99)00565-7
[9]	Dahal J L R, Majety S, Pantha B N, et al. Epitaxially grown semiconducting hexagonal boron nitride as a deep ultraviolet photonic materia. Appl Phys Lett, 2011, 98, 211110 doi: 10.1063/1.3593958
[10]	Majety J L S, Cao X K, Dahal R, et al. Epitaxial growth and demonstration of hexagonal BN/AlGaN p–n junctions for deep ultraviolet photonics. Appl Phys Lett, 2012, 100, 061121 doi: 10.1063/1.3682523
[11]	Jiang H X, Lin J Y. Hexagonal boron nitride for deep ultraviolet photonic devices. Semicond Sci Technol, 2014, 29, 1 doi: 10.1088/0268-1242/29/8/084003
[12]	Satter M M, Kim H J, Lochner Z, et al. Design and analysis of 250-nm AlInN laser diodes on AlN substrates using tapered electron blocking layers. IEEE J Quantum Electron, 2012, 48, 703 doi: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2190496
[13]	Sailo L, Ralte R L, Lalchhuanawmi M, et al. Calculation of the band structure and band splitting energy of boron compounds (BX, X = N, P, As, Sb) using modified Becke-Johnson potential. IOSR-JAP, 2016, 8, 1

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Mussaab I. Niass, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Yifu Wang, Zhengqian Lu, Xue Chen, Yipu Qu, Zhongqiu Du, Fang Wang, Yuhuai Liu. A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B0.313Ga0.687N/B0.40Ga0.60N QWs and AlxGa1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2019, 40(12): 122802. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802 ****M I Niass, M N Sharif, Y F Wang, Z Q Lu, X Chen, Y P Qu, Z Q Du, F Wang, Y H Liu, A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B0.313Ga0.687N/B0.40Ga0.60N QWs and AlxGa1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate[J]. J. Semicond., 2019, 40(12): 122802. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802.

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Mussaab I. Niass, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Yifu Wang, Zhengqian Lu, Xue Chen, Yipu Qu, Zhongqiu Du, Fang Wang, Yuhuai Liu. A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QWs and Al_xGa_1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2019, 40(12): 122802. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802 ****

M I Niass, M N Sharif, Y F Wang, Z Q Lu, X Chen, Y P Qu, Z Q Du, F Wang, Y H Liu, A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B0.313Ga0.687N/B0.40Ga0.60N QWs and AlxGa1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate[J]. J. Semicond., 2019, 40(12): 122802. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802.

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A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QWs and Al_xGa_1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/12/122802

Mussaab I. Niass^1,2,3,,
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif^1,2,3,
Yifu Wang^1,2,3,
Zhengqian Lu^1,2,3,
Xue Chen^1,2,3,
Yipu Qu^1,2,3,
Zhongqiu Du^1,2,3,
Fang Wang^1,2,3,,
Yuhuai Liu^1,2,3,

1.
National Center for International Joint Research of Electronic Materials and Systems, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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International Joint-Laboratory of Electronic Materials and Systems of Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

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Corresponding author: mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn; mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn; mussaab99@gmail.com, iefwang@zzu.edu.cn, ieyhliu@zzu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2018-12-26
Revised Date: 2019-04-30
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In this paper, an ultraviolet C-band laser diode lasing at 277 nm composed of B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QW/QB heterostructure on Mg and Si-doped Al_xGa_1–xN layers was designed, as well as a lowest reported substitutional accepter and donor concentration up to N_A = 5.0 × 10¹⁷ cm^–3 and N_D = 9.0 × 10¹⁶ cm^–3 for deep ultraviolet lasing was achieved. The structure was assumed to be grown over bulk AlN substrate and operate under a continuous wave at room temperature. Although there is an emphasizing of the suitability for using boron nitride wide band gap in the deep ultraviolet region, there is still a shortage of investigation about the ternary BGaN in aluminum-rich AlGaN alloys. Based on the simulation, an average local gain in quantum wells of 1946 cm^–1, the maximum emitted power of 2.4 W, the threshold current of 500 mA, a slope efficiency of 1.91 W/A as well as an average DC resistance for the V–I curve of (0.336 Ω) had been observed. Along with an investigation regarding different EBL, designs were included with tapered and inverse tapered structure. Therefore, it had been found a good agreement with the published results for tapered EBL design, with an overweighting for a proposed inverse tapered EBL design.
- laser diodes,
- semiconducting aluminum compounds,
- heterojunction semiconductor devices,
- quantum wells,
- semiconducting ternary compounds

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[1]	Li D B, Sun X J, Guo C L. AlGaN photonics: recent advances in materials and ultraviolet devices. Adv Opt Photon, 2018, 10, 43 doi: 10.1364/AOP.10.000043
[2]	Chowdhury M Z, Hossan M T, Islam A, et al. A comparative survey of optical wireless technologies: architectures and applications. IEEE Access, 2018, 6, 9819 doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2792419
[3]	Chen J R, Ko T S, Su P Y, et al. Numerical study on optimization of active layer structures for GaN/AlGaN multiple-quantum-well laser diodes. J Lightwave Technol, 2008, 26, 3155 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2008.926939
[4]	Watanabe T, Niiyama T, Miya K, et al. Far-ultraviolet plane-emission handheld device based on hexagonal boron nitride. Nat Photonics, 2009, 3, 591 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.167
[5]	Watanabe K, Taniguchi T. Hexagonal boron nitride as a new ultraviolet luminescent material and its application. Int J Appl Ceram Technol, 2011, 8, 977 doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2011.02626.x
[6]	Kawanishi H, Haruyama M, Shirai T, et al. (BAlGa)N quaternary system and epitaxial growth on (0001) 6H-SiC substrate by low-pressure MO-VPE. Proc SPIE, 1997, 2994, 52 doi: 10.1117/12.275585
[7]	Kurimoto M, Takano T, Yamamoto J, et al. Growth of BGaN/AlGaN multi-quantum-well structure by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. J Cryst Growth, 2000, 221, 378 doi: 10.1016/S0022-0248(00)00717-X
[8]	Honda T, Kurimoto M, Shibata M, et al. Excitonic emission of BGaN grown on (0 0 0 1) 6H-SiC by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. J Lumin, 2000, 87–89, 1274 doi: 10.1016/S0022-2313(99)00565-7
[9]	Dahal J L R, Majety S, Pantha B N, et al. Epitaxially grown semiconducting hexagonal boron nitride as a deep ultraviolet photonic materia. Appl Phys Lett, 2011, 98, 211110 doi: 10.1063/1.3593958
[10]	Majety J L S, Cao X K, Dahal R, et al. Epitaxial growth and demonstration of hexagonal BN/AlGaN p–n junctions for deep ultraviolet photonics. Appl Phys Lett, 2012, 100, 061121 doi: 10.1063/1.3682523
[11]	Jiang H X, Lin J Y. Hexagonal boron nitride for deep ultraviolet photonic devices. Semicond Sci Technol, 2014, 29, 1 doi: 10.1088/0268-1242/29/8/084003
[12]	Satter M M, Kim H J, Lochner Z, et al. Design and analysis of 250-nm AlInN laser diodes on AlN substrates using tapered electron blocking layers. IEEE J Quantum Electron, 2012, 48, 703 doi: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2190496
[13]	Sailo L, Ralte R L, Lalchhuanawmi M, et al. Calculation of the band structure and band splitting energy of boron compounds (BX, X = N, P, As, Sb) using modified Becke-Johnson potential. IOSR-JAP, 2016, 8, 1

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A contrivance of 277 nm DUV LD with B_0.313Ga_0.687N/B_0.40Ga_0.60N QWs and Al_xGa_1–xN heterojunction grown on AlN substrate