In this study, with the objective of lowering the polarization without degrading the carrier confinement in the active region, an InGaN light-emitting diode with GaN/InGaN/GaN triangular (GIGT) quantum barriers (QBs) was proposed and studied systematically. When traditional GaN QBs were replaced by the GIGT QBs, the output power at 150 mA rose from 82.05 to 155.99 mW, and the efficiency droop was decreased from 51.0% to 16.5%. Simulation results indicated that these improvements could result from the effectively suppressed polarization field in the quantum wells and the markedly enhanced carrier confinement in the active region because of the appropriately modified energy band structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]