Handbook of GaN Semiconductor Materials and Devices

This book addresses material growth, device fabrication, device application, and commercialization of energy-efficient white light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, and power electronics devices. It covers the basics of semiconductor materials, physics, growth and characterization techniques.

Wayne Bi is distinguished chair professor and associate dean in the College of Information and Electrical Engineering, chief scientist in the State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China. He earned his PhD in Applied Physics from the University of California, San Diego. He has worked in industry for over two decades including at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, Agilent Technologies Laboratory, and Philips Lumileds, developing cutting-edge optoelectronic and photonic materials and device structures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) with their applications to optoelectronic and electronic devices. Previously he was chief engineer and Vice President of Najing Technology / NNCrystal. Dr. Bi has authored or co-authored over 60 refereed journal publications, and has presented numerous conference talks and is the inventor of twenty patents. He is an elected fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). Hao-chung (Henry) Kuo is Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of the Photonics Center at National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Tsu, Taiwan. He earned his doctorate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. He has supervised over forty PhD and Master's level scientists and engineers and also has extensive industry experience, including at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Agilent Technologies, and LuxNet Corporation. He has worked in the field of III-V optical devices and materials, solid state lighting process development, and fabrication and measurement of quantum devices. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics and Journal of Lightwave Technology. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is an elected fellow of SPIE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Section I Fundamentals 1 III-Nitride Materials and Characterization Bo Shen, Ning Tang, XinQiang Wang, ZhiZhong Chen, FuJun Xu, XueLin Yang, TongJun Yu, JieJun Wu, ZhiXin Qin, WeiYing Wang, YuXia Feng, and WeiKun Ge 2 Microstructure and Polarization Properties of III-Nitride Semiconductors Fernando A. Ponce 3 Optical Properties of III-Nitride Semiconductors Plamen P. Paskov and Bo Monemar 4 Electronic and Transport Properties of III-Nitride Semiconductors Yuh-Renn Wu Section II Growth and Processing 5 Growth Technology for GaN and AlN Bulk Substrates and Templates Michael Slomski, Lianghong Liu, John F. Muth, and Tania Paskova 6 III-Nitride Metalorganic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy Daniel D. Koleske 7 Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of III-Nitride Nanowire Heterostructures and Emerging Device Applications Shizhao Fan, Songrui Zhao, Faqrul A. Chowdhury, Renjie Wang, and Zetian Mi 8 Advanced Optoelectronic Device Processing Fengyi Jiang Section III Power Electronics 9 Principles and Properties of Nitride-Based Electronic Devices An-Jye Tzou, Chun-Hsun Lee, Shin-Yi Ho, Hao-Chung (Henry) Kuo, and Jian-Jang Huang 10 Power Conversion and the Role of GaN Srabanti Chowdhury 11 Recent Progress in GaN-on-Si HEMT Kevin J. Chen and Shu Yang 12 Reliability in III-Nitride Devices Davide Bisi, Isabella Rossetto, Matteo Meneghini, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, and Enrico Zanoni Section IV Light Emitters 13 Internal Quantum Efficiency for III-Nitride-Based Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Zi-Hui Zhang, Yonghui Zhang, Hilmi Volkan Demir, and Xiao Wei Sun 14 White Light-Emitting Diode: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Future Trends Bingfeng Fan, Yi Zhuo, and Gang Wang 15 Current Status and Trends for Green Light-Emitting Diodes Junxi Wang, Zhe Liu, and Ning Zhang 16 Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes: Challenges and Countermeasures Jun Hyuk Park, Jong Won Lee, Dong Yeong Kim, and Jong Kyu Kim 17 InGaN/GaN Quantum Dot Visible Lasers Thomas Frost, Guan-Lin Su, John Dallesasse, and Pallab Bhattacharya 18 GaN-Based Surface-Emitting Lasers Kuo-Bin Hong, Shen-Che Huang, Yu-Hsun Chou, and Tien-Chang Lu Section V Emerging Applications 19 III-V Nitride-Based Photodetection Chien-Chung Lin, Lung-Hsing Hsu, Yu-Ling Tsai, Hao-Chung (Henry) Kuo, Wei-Chih Lai, and Jinn-Kong Sheu 20 Intersubband Optoelectronics Using III-Nitride Semiconductors Caroline B. Lim, Akhil Ajay, Jonas Lahnemann, David A. Browne, and Eva Monroy 21 Lighting Communications Yu-Chieh Chi, Dan-Hua Hsieh, Hao-Chung (Henry) Kuo, Sujie Nakamura,Steve Denbaars, and Gong-Ru Lin 22 III-Nitride Semiconductor Single Photon Sources Pei-Cheng Ku, Chu-Hsiang Teng, and Hui Deng