Abstract

Indium tin oxide (ITO) is often used as a current spreading layer in the GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). However, the absorption coefficient of ITO is significant, which reduces the laser output power, raises the threshold, and makes VCSELs hardly lase in the ultraviolet range. To find a transparent conductive structure that can replace ITO, we propose a periodic p-AlGaN/u-GaN/p-GaN structure. In the simulation of light-emitting diodes, the optimized parameter is obtained with multi-period 10 nm p-Al_0.1Ga_0.9N/2 nm u-GaN/8 nm p-GaN combined with n-GaN/n-Al_0.2Ga_0.8N in the n region. Applying the structure to 435 nm VCSELs and comparing it to a common VCSEL with the ITO current spreading layer, it can be found that the new structure reduces the threshold from 9.17 to 3.06 kA/cm². The laser power increases from 1.33 to 15.4 mW. The optimized structure has a high laser power and a lower threshold, which can be used in future investigations.

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