Generalized Photon Recycling Theory for 2D and 3D LED Simulation in Sentaurus Device

Author

Ng, Wei-Choon ; Pfeiffer, Michael

Author_Institution

Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

128

Abstract

We generalize the photon recycling effect to include three distinctive phenomena: amplified spontaneous emission, absorption and instantaneous re-emission processes. These processes can be directly inferred from the physical phenomenon of a spontaneous emission spectrum overlapping a stimulated gain spectrum. We incorporate this generalized photon recycling model into a 2D/3D ray tracing algorithm and coupled it self-consistently to a general 2D/3D device simulator (Sentaurus Device^TM.

Keywords

light emitting diodes; ray tracing; semiconductor device models; superradiance; 2D LED simulation; 2D ray tracing algorithm; 3D LED simulation; 3D ray tracing algorithm; Sentaurus Device; absorption processes; amplified spontaneous emission; generalized photon recycling model; instantaneous re-emission processes; stimulated gain spectrum; Absorption; Computational modeling; Equations; Geometrical optics; Light emitting diodes; Optical feedback; Ray tracing; Recycling; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, 2006. NUSOD '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9755-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2006.306774

Filename

4098814