Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3 College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
4 School of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
5 e-mail: cxshan@zzu.edu.cn
6 e-mail: shendz@ciomp.ac.cn
The collective oscillation of electrons located in the conduction band of metal nanostructures being still energized, with the energy up to the bulk plasmon frequency, are called nonequilibrium hot electrons. It can lead to the state-filling effect in the energy band of the neighboring semiconductor. Here, we report on the incandescent-type light source composed of Au nanorods decorated with single Ga-doped ZnO microwire (AuNRs@ZnO:Ga MW). Benefiting from Au nanorods with controlled aspect ratio, wavelength-tunable incandescent-type lighting was achieved, with the dominating emission peaks tuning from visible to near-infrared spectral regions. The intrinsic mechanism was found that tunable nonequilibrium distribution of hot electrons in ZnO:Ga MW, injected from Au nanorods, can be responsible for the tuning emission features. Apart from the modification over the composition, bandgap engineering, doping level, etc., the realization of electrically driving the generation and injection of nonequilibrium hot electrons from single ZnO:Ga MW with Au nanostructure coating may provide a promising platform to construct electronics and optoelectronics devices, such as electric spasers and hot-carrier-induced tunneling diodes.
Photonics Research
2020, 8(1): 01000091
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Key Laboratory of Excited State Processes, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033
2 National Key Laboratory of High Power Semiconductor Laser, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022
3 College of Electron. Sci. Eng., Jilin University, Changchun 130023
In this paper, the growth and characteristics of ZnCdSe/ZnSe quantum wells (QWs) prepared on ZnOSi (111) templates are reported. An oriented ZnO thin film with a smooth surface was employed to be the buffer layer for the ZnCdSe/ZnSe QWs growth. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) patterns showed that the ZnO buffer layer improved the smoothness of the ZnCdSe/ZnSe sample. Up to the 3rd longitudinal optical phonon of Zn0:56Cd0:44Se observed in Raman spectra suggests that the crystalquality of ZnCdSe/ZnSe QWs is reasonably good. The influence of quantum confinement effect on exciton characters of the QWs was also demonstrated.
160.6000 semiconductors including MQW 160.4760 optical properties 250.5230 photoluminescence 290.5860 scattering Raman Chinese Optics Letters
2003, 1(11): 11668