Rational Distributed Bragg Reflector Design for Improving Performance of Flip-Chip Micro-LEDs

• DOI: 10.3390/electronics11193030
• Publication Date: 2022-09-26T03:13:27Z
• Authors: Yuechang Sun; Lang Shi; Peng Du; Xiaoyu Zhao; Shengjun Zhou
• Keywords: distributed Bragg reflector; flip-chip; micro-LED; FDTD; 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy

The distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) has been widely used in flip-chip micro light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) because of its high reflectivity. However, the conventional double-stack DBR has a strong angular dependence and a narrow reflective bandwidth. Here, we propose a wide reflected angle Ti3O5/SiO2 DBR (WRA-DBR) for AlGaInP-based red and GaN-based green/blue flip-chip micro-LEDs (RGB flip-chip micro-LEDs) to overcome the drawbacks of the double-stack DBR. The WRA-DBR consisting of six sub-DBRs has high reflectivity within the visible light wavelength region at an incident angle of light ranging from 0° to 60°. Furthermore, the influence of the WRA-DBR and double-stack DBR on performances of RGB flip-chip micro-LEDs is numerically investigated based on the finite-difference time-domain method. Owing to higher reflectivity and less angular dependence of the WRA-DBR, the RGB flip-chip micro-LEDs with the WRA-DBR have a stronger electric field intensity in the top side in comparison with RGB flip-chip micro-LEDs with the double-stack DBR, which indicates that more photons can be extracted from micro-LEDs with the WRA-DBR.