High quality GaN films on (0001) sapphire substrates were grown by a commercial MOCVD system (Thomas Swan Corp.).The etch pits and threading dislocations(TDs) in GaN films have been studied by chemical etching methods such as mixed acid solution (H 3PO 4∶H 2SO 4=1∶3) and molten KOH,HCl vapor etching method,scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope(TEM).SEM images of the same position of GaN films with HCl vapor etching and wet etching methods show notably different densities and shapes of etching pits.The results indicate that HCl vapor etching can show pure edge,pure screw and mixed TDs,mixed acid solution can show pure screw and mixed TDs and molten KOH wet etching only can show pure screw TDs.
Waveguide characteristics of symmetrical separate confinement heterojunction multi quantum well (SCH MQW) AlGaN/GaN/InGaN laser diode (LD) are studied by using one dimensional (1 D) transfer matrix waveguide approach.Aiming at photon confinement factor,threshold current,and power efficiency,layers design for SCH MQW LD is optimized.The optimal layers parameters are 3 periods In 0.02 Ga 0.98 N/In 0.15 Ga 0.85 N QW for active layer,In 0.1 Ga 0 9 N for waveguide layer with 90nm thick,and 120×(2 5nm/2 5nm) Al 0.25 Ga 0 75 N/GaN supper lattices for cladding layer with the laser wavelength of 396 6nm.
We investigate the transverse mode pattern in GaN quantum-well （QW） laser diode （LD） by numerical calculation. We optimize the current GaN LD structure by varying the n-GaN layer thickness. The n-type GaN layer is an important factor to determine the optical mode. Finally, we discuss the lasing performance of the GaN LD based on the transverse optical modes.
