C-Plane Blue Micro-LED With 1.53 GHz Bandwidth for High-Speed Visible Light Communication

A high-speed c-plane InGaN/GaN blue micro-scale light-emitting diodes (Micro-LEDs) with a pixel diameter of
$60~\mu \text{m}$
, and a high −3 dB modulation bandwidth of 1.53 GHz at the current density of 5996 A/cm
²
were demonstrated. The ultra-thin quantum well (QW) structure with InGaN layer of 1 nm was designed, and optimized variable temperature growth processes were adopted to increase In incorporation and localization effect in the quantum wells, which greatly reduce the polarization field and increase the overlap of electron-hole wave functions. The differential carrier lifetime was effectively shortened, increasing the modulation bandwidth of the Micro-LED. And a data rate of 5.27 Gbps with a bit error rate (BER) of
$3.1\times 10^{-{3}}$
was demonstrated with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal for a 1 m free space real-time visible light communication (VLC) based on such high-speed micro-LED. Promising results in this work may support a great development of high-speed VLC applications.