An electrical model of InGaN based high power light emitting diodes with self-heating effect

Bingqian Li; Yuchun Feng; Yuhua Liu

doi:10.1117/12.728673

14 September 2007 An electrical model of InGaN based high power light emitting diodes with self-heating effect

Bingqian Li, Yuchun Feng, Yuhua Liu

Proceedings Volume 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting; 66691C (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728673
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present an electrical model for InGaN based high power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with self-heating effect. The model consists of an ideal diode connected with a series resistor. Because of the self-heating effect, the temperature of the p-n junction (T_j) is much higher than case temperature (T_C), the maximum T_j in our experiment is 148K high above case temperature. For the T_j rises caused by self-heating effect, some temperature-dependent parameters, such as the band gap (E_g) of InGaN which influence the reverse saturation current, the hole mobility (μ_p) which influence the series resistance of p-type GaN, can be written as the function of forward current (I) and voltage (U). The voltage drops on p-n junction and equivalent series resistance are extracted from the measured I-V curve, and then the values of equivalent series resistance at different forward power are obtained. By the self-heating effect, the values of equivalent series resistance show a very strong forward power-dependent characteristics, the maximum equivalent series resistance in this paper is about 1.6Ωat high forward power, nearly twice of the minimum one. It is worthwhile to point out that the equivalent series resistance changed by self-heating effect and its influence on electronically property of GaN based LEDs can not be neglected even at the low resistance level about 1Ωin our experiment.

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Bingqian Li, Yuchun Feng, and Yuhua Liu "An electrical model of InGaN based high power light emitting diodes with self-heating effect", Proc. SPIE 6669, Seventh International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 66691C (14 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728673

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