lateral overgrown (ELO) wing of a semipolar {20 2¯ 1} GaN substrate, termed an ELO wing
LD. Two types of facet feasibility studies were conducted:(1)“handmade” facets, wherein
lifted-off ELO wing LDs were cleaved manually, and (2) facets formed on wafers through
reactive ion etching (RIE). Pulsed operation electrical and optical measurements confirmed
the laser action in the RIE facet LDs with a threshold current of~ 19 kAcm− 2 and maximum …