Optically pumped colloidal-quantum-dot lasing in LED-like devices with an integrated optical cavity
Abstract
Abstract Realization of electrically pumped lasing with solution processable materials will have a revolutionary impact on many disciplines including photonics, chemical sensing, and medical diagnostics. Due to readily tunable, size-controlled emission wavelengths, colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are attractive materials for attaining this goal. Here we use specially engineered QDs to demonstrate devices that operate as both a light emitting diode (LED) and an optically pumped laser. These structures feature a distributed feedback resonator integrated into a bottom LED electrode. By carefully engineering a refractive-index profile across the device, we are able to obtain good confinement of a waveguided mode within the QD medium, which allows for demonstrating low-threshold lasing even with an ultrathin (about three QD monolayers) active layer. These devices also exhibit strong electroluminescence (EL) under electrical pumping. The conducted studies suggest that the demonstrated dual-function (lasing/EL) structures represent a promising device platform for realizing colloidal QD laser diodes.
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
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- 1619766
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- OSTI ID: 1593117
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- LA-UR-19-29883
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; 271; PII: 14014
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Roh, Jeongkyun, Park, Young-Shin, Lim, Jaehoon, and Klimov, Victor I. Optically pumped colloidal-quantum-dot lasing in LED-like devices with an integrated optical cavity. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14014-3.
Roh, Jeongkyun, Park, Young-Shin, Lim, Jaehoon, & Klimov, Victor I. Optically pumped colloidal-quantum-dot lasing in LED-like devices with an integrated optical cavity. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14014-3
Roh, Jeongkyun, Park, Young-Shin, Lim, Jaehoon, and Klimov, Victor I. Tue .
"Optically pumped colloidal-quantum-dot lasing in LED-like devices with an integrated optical cavity". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14014-3.
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title = {Optically pumped colloidal-quantum-dot lasing in LED-like devices with an integrated optical cavity},
author = {Roh, Jeongkyun and Park, Young-Shin and Lim, Jaehoon and Klimov, Victor I.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Realization of electrically pumped lasing with solution processable materials will have a revolutionary impact on many disciplines including photonics, chemical sensing, and medical diagnostics. Due to readily tunable, size-controlled emission wavelengths, colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are attractive materials for attaining this goal. Here we use specially engineered QDs to demonstrate devices that operate as both a light emitting diode (LED) and an optically pumped laser. These structures feature a distributed feedback resonator integrated into a bottom LED electrode. By carefully engineering a refractive-index profile across the device, we are able to obtain good confinement of a waveguided mode within the QD medium, which allows for demonstrating low-threshold lasing even with an ultrathin (about three QD monolayers) active layer. These devices also exhibit strong electroluminescence (EL) under electrical pumping. The conducted studies suggest that the demonstrated dual-function (lasing/EL) structures represent a promising device platform for realizing colloidal QD laser diodes.},
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14014-3
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