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Title: Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle

Abstract

There have been rapidly increasing demands for flexible lighting apparatus, and micrometer-scale light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are regarded as one of the promising lighting sources for deformable device applications. Herein, we demonstrate a method of creating a deformable LED, based on remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod (MR) p-n junction arrays on c-Al2O3 wafer across graphene. The use of graphene allows the transfer of MR LED arrays onto a copper plate, and spatially separate MR arrays offer ideal device geometry suitable for deformable LED in various shapes without serious device performance degradation. Moreover, remote heteroepitaxy also allows the wafer to be reused, allowing reproducible production of MR LEDs using a single substrate without noticeable device degradation. The remote heteroepitaxial relation is determined by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, and the density functional theory simulations clarify how the remote heteroepitaxy is made possible through graphene.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [2];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [9]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  2. Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
  3. Ewha Womans Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  4. Korea Electronics Technology Inst. (KETI), Seongnam (Korea, Republic of)
  5. ITSWELL Division R&D Center, CoAsia Co. Ltd., Incheon (Korea, Republic of)
  6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
  7. Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Korea, Republic of)
  8. Korea Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  9. Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States); Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1659201
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-29399
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Material Science

Citation Formats

Jeong, Junseok, Wang, Qingxiao, Cha, Janghwan, Jin, Dae Kwon, Shin, Dong Hoon, Kwon, Sunah, Kang, Bong Kyun, Jang, Jun Hyuk, Yang, Woo Seok, Choi, Yong Seok, Yoo, Jinkyoung, Kim, Jong Kyu, Lee, Chul-Ho, Lee, Sang Wook, Zakhidov, Anvar, Hong, Suklyun, Kim, Moon J., and Hong, Young Joon. Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz5180.
Jeong, Junseok, Wang, Qingxiao, Cha, Janghwan, Jin, Dae Kwon, Shin, Dong Hoon, Kwon, Sunah, Kang, Bong Kyun, Jang, Jun Hyuk, Yang, Woo Seok, Choi, Yong Seok, Yoo, Jinkyoung, Kim, Jong Kyu, Lee, Chul-Ho, Lee, Sang Wook, Zakhidov, Anvar, Hong, Suklyun, Kim, Moon J., & Hong, Young Joon. Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5180
Jeong, Junseok, Wang, Qingxiao, Cha, Janghwan, Jin, Dae Kwon, Shin, Dong Hoon, Kwon, Sunah, Kang, Bong Kyun, Jang, Jun Hyuk, Yang, Woo Seok, Choi, Yong Seok, Yoo, Jinkyoung, Kim, Jong Kyu, Lee, Chul-Ho, Lee, Sang Wook, Zakhidov, Anvar, Hong, Suklyun, Kim, Moon J., and Hong, Young Joon. Wed . "Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5180. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1659201.
@article{osti_1659201,
title = {Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle},
author = {Jeong, Junseok and Wang, Qingxiao and Cha, Janghwan and Jin, Dae Kwon and Shin, Dong Hoon and Kwon, Sunah and Kang, Bong Kyun and Jang, Jun Hyuk and Yang, Woo Seok and Choi, Yong Seok and Yoo, Jinkyoung and Kim, Jong Kyu and Lee, Chul-Ho and Lee, Sang Wook and Zakhidov, Anvar and Hong, Suklyun and Kim, Moon J. and Hong, Young Joon},
abstractNote = {There have been rapidly increasing demands for flexible lighting apparatus, and micrometer-scale light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are regarded as one of the promising lighting sources for deformable device applications. Herein, we demonstrate a method of creating a deformable LED, based on remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod (MR) p-n junction arrays on c-Al2O3 wafer across graphene. The use of graphene allows the transfer of MR LED arrays onto a copper plate, and spatially separate MR arrays offer ideal device geometry suitable for deformable LED in various shapes without serious device performance degradation. Moreover, remote heteroepitaxy also allows the wafer to be reused, allowing reproducible production of MR LEDs using a single substrate without noticeable device degradation. The remote heteroepitaxial relation is determined by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, and the density functional theory simulations clarify how the remote heteroepitaxy is made possible through graphene.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aaz5180},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 23,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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