Enhancement in Light Extraction of GaN-Based Light-Emitting Diodes With High Reflectivity Electrodes

In GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs), using gold-based metals to serve as electrodes, light absorption is a problem that severely restricts the light extraction in LEDs. This study demonstrates the GaN-based LEDs with high reflectivity metals (Ag/Pt) onto an n-type GaN surface and transparent contact layer (indium-tin-oxide), to serve as the n-type electrode and the p-type electrode, respectively. By replacing Cr/Au with Ag/Pt to serve as electrodes of LEDs, the light output power of the LEDs was increased by 15.7%, thereby significantly reducing the manufacturing cost of LEDs.