Infrared Light-Emitting Devices from Antenna-Coupled Luttinger Liquid Plasmons In Carbon Nanotubes

Yoo, SeokJae; Zhao, Sihan; Wang, Feng

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.127.257702

Title: Infrared Light-Emitting Devices from Antenna-Coupled Luttinger Liquid Plasmons In Carbon Nanotubes

Journal Article · 14 December 2021 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.257702 · OSTI ID:1963833

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Inha University, Incheon (Korea, Republic of)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China);
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division; Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Electrically driven light-emitting devices provide highly energy-efficient lighting at visible wavelengths, and they have transformed photonic and electronic lighting applications. Efficient infrared light-emitting devices, however, have been challenging because band gap emission from semiconductors becomes inefficient in the mid-infrared to far-infrared spectral range. Here, in this paper, we investigate infrared light-emitting devices (IRLEDs) based on Luttinger liquid (LL) plasmons in one-dimensional (1D) metallic carbon nanotubes. Elementary excitations in LL are characterized by collective charge and spin excitations, i.e., plasmons and spinons. Consequently, electrons injected into the nanotubes transform efficiently into LL plasmons, a hybrid excitation of electromagnetic fields and electrons. We design nanoantennas coupled to the carbon nanotube to radiate LL plasmons into the far field. LL-based IRLEDs can be designed to selectively emit at wavelengths across the far- and mid-infrared spectra. An electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency up to 3.2% may be achieved. Such efficient and narrowband LL-based IRLEDs can enable novel infrared nanophotonic applications.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); National Science Foundation of China; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; NRF-2017R1A6A3A11034238; NRF-2019R1A4A1028121; CAMM-2014M3A6B3063710; 12174335; AC02-05-CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1963833

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1837125

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 127, Issue 25; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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