Title: Light-Emitting Metasurfaces: Simultaneous Control of Spontaneous Emission and Far-Field Radiation

Abstract

Light-emitting sources and devices permeate every aspect of our lives and are used in lighting, communications, transportation, computing, and medicine. Advances in multifunctional and “smart lighting” would require revolutionary concepts in the control of emission spectra and directionality. Such control might be possible with new schemes and regimes of light–matter interaction paired with developments in light-emitting materials. We show that all-dielectric metasurfaces made from III–V semiconductors with embedded emitters have the potential to provide revolutionary lighting concepts and devices, with new functionality that goes far beyond what is available in existing technologies. Specifically, we use Mie-resonant metasurfaces made from semiconductor heterostructures containing epitaxial quantum dots. By controlling the symmetry of the resonant modes, their overlap with the emission spectra, and other structural parameters, we can enhance the brightness by 2 orders of magnitude, as well as reduce its far-field divergence significantly.

Authors:

Liu, Sheng  ^[1];

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Vaskin, Aleksandr  ^[2];

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Addamane, Sadhvikas ^[3]; Leung, Benjamin ^[4]; Tsai, Miao-Chan ^[4]; Yang, Yuanmu ^[4]; Vabishchevich, Polina P.  ^[1];

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Keeler, Gordon A. ^[4]; Wang, George  ^[4];

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He, Xiaowei  ^[5];

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Kim, Younghee ^[5]; Hartmann, Nicolai F.  ^[5];

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Htoon, Han  ^[5];

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Doorn, Stephen K.  ^[5];

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Zilk, Matthias ^[2]; Pertsch, Thomas ^[2]; Balakrishnan, Ganesh ^[3]; Sinclair, Michael B. ^[4]; Staude, Isabelle  ^[2];

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Brener, Igal  ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
2. Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena (Germany). Inst. of Applied Physics. Abbe Center of Photonics
3. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)
4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:

Fri Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; German Research Foundation (DFG); Thuringian State Government (Germany)

OSTI Identifier:

1482014

Report Number(s):

LA-UR-18-28615
Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984

Grant/Contract Number:  

AC52-06NA25396; NA0003525; STA 1426/2-1

Resource Type:

Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:

Nano Letters

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Material Science