UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) is at the forefront of the fields of lighting and solid-state devices. Read on to learn more about the newly available technology that has emerged out of the Center this past year.
The benefits of Gallium Nitride (GaN) as a semiconductor material are significant and far-reaching. GaN’s power efficiency and unique optical properties position it as the backbone material for the next generation of innovation across a wide swath of devices. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara continue to pioneer advancements in GaN applications and bring this technology to the world just as they did with the emergence of solid state lighting.
This GaN VCSEL achieves high efficiency, high peak power, and long device lifetimes by eliminating degradation to the active region, improving emission intensity, and significantly reducing absorption loss within the cavity.
This technology employs sidewall treatments that introduce the performance benefits of deep-etching to III-nitride laser diodes without device degradation or sacrificing electrical performance. The laser diodes fabricated using this technology have demonstrated significant improvements to optical efficiency and reduced internal loss compared to conventional shallow-etched devices.
This technology minimizes or entirely prevents the formation of misfit dislocations at the interface of the heterostructure of III-V compound-based devices — even those grown under large lattice mismatch conditions. The improved performance enables applications in optical integrated circuits (ICs), displays, automobiles, power grids, and more.
This technology produces highly efficient III-nitride devices with high-quality, long-wavelength active regions that achieve the highest-available crystal quality of InGaN and AlGaN layers; nearly three times higher than current market offerings.
This technology improves the layer structure and growth conditions for green InGaN emitters, resulting in higher power output and higher efficiency while growing the devices on or above a strain-relaxed template (SRT).
To meet the demand for highly efficient micro-LEDs for AR/VR applications, this technology enhances key device performance metrics using novel fabrication methods that improve crystal quality, defect density, surface morphology, and growth temperature.
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