Stretchable transparent light-emitting diodes based on ingan/gan quantum well microwires and carbon nanotube films

Fedor M. Kochetkov*, Vladimir Neplokh, Viktoria A. Mastalieva, Sungat Mukhangali, Aleksandr A. Vorob’ev, Aleksandr V. Uvarov, Filipp E. Komissarenko, Dmitry M. Mitin, Akanksha Kapoor, Joel Eymery, Nuño Amador-Mendez, Christophe Durand, Dmitry Krasnikov, Albert G. Nasibulin, Maria Tchernycheva, Ivan S. Mukhin

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate both flexible and stretchable blue light-emitting diodes based on core/shell InGaN/GaN quantum well microwires embedded in polydimethylsiloxane membranes with strain-insensitive transparent electrodes involving single-walled carbon nanotubes. InGaN/GaN core-shell microwires were grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy, encapsulated into a polydimethylsiloxane film, and then released from the growth substrate. The fabricated free-standing membrane of light-emitting diodes with contacts of single-walled carbon nanotube films can stand up to 20% stretching while maintaining efficient operation. Membrane-based LEDs show less than 15% degradation of electroluminescence intensity after 20 cycles of stretching thus opening an avenue for highly deformable inorganic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1503
Number of pages10
JournalNanomaterials
Volume11
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • InGaN
  • MOVPE
  • Nanowires
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes
  • Stretchable LED

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