Computational study of carrier injection in III-nitride core-shell nanowire-LEDs

We report on the computational analysis of a core-shell GaN/InGaN nanowire LED with a capped pyramidal top. The active region consists of a polar multi quantum well (MQW) at the top, a non-polar MQW along the lateral face and a semi-polar one joining them. Differences in the opto-electronic characteristics of the three crystal orientations can be examined, arising from polarization effects as well as the strain-induced bandedge shift. Furthermore the influence of carrier injection efficiency in a nanowire is investigated.