Fabrication of vertical thin-GaN light-emitting diode by low-temperature Cu/Sn/Ag wafer bonding

Vertical thin-GaN LED was successfully fabricated on the GaN LED epi-layers grown on the patternedsapphire substrate with the pyramidal pattern by low-temperature Cu/Sn/Ag wafer bonding at 150 C. An inverted pyramidal pattern formed on the n-GaN surface after the GaN epi-layer was transferred onto Si wafer, which resulted from the pyramidal pattern on the patterned-sapphire substrate. The inverted pyramidal pattern has an equivalent function with roughening the n-GaN surface. With higher inverted pyramidal pattern coverage, the light extraction efficiency can be greatly enhanced. In addition, we found that the 4-fold increase (from 13.6% to 53.8%) in the pyramidal pattern coverage on patterned-sapphire substrate only gives the GaN LED epi-layer about 5.7% enhancement in the internal quantum efficiency. 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.