Enhanced room temperature infrared LEDs using monolithically integrated plasmonic materials

Abstract

Remarkable systems have been reported recently using the polylithic integration of semiconductor optoelectronic devices and plasmonic materials exhibiting epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) and negative permittivity. In traditional noble metals, the ENZ and plasmonic response is achieved near the metal plasma frequency, limiting plasmonic optoelectronic device design flexibility. Here, we leverage an all-epitaxial approach to monolithically and seamlessly integrate designer plasmonic materials into a quantum dot light emitting diode, leading to a 5.6 × enhancement over an otherwise identical non-plasmonic control sample. The device presented exhibits optical powers comparable, and temperature performance far superior, to commercially available devices.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 08, 2020
Source ID
10.1364/optica.402208

Entities

People

  • Aaron J. Muhowski
  • Andrew Briggs
  • Daniel Wasserman
  • Evan Simmons
  • Leland Nordin
  • Minjoo L. Lee
  • Pankul Dhingra
  • Seth R. Bank
  • Viktor Podolskiy

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • National Science Foundation

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing