Enhanced Light Emitters Based on Metamaterials

Abstract

We report the development of light emitters based on hyperbolic metamaterials. During the 18 month program period in Queens College of CUNY (Nov 2012 May 2014), we successfully demonstrated growth of ultrasmooth silver films using germanium wetting layer, use of a high refractive index contrast grating to out-couple light from active hyperbolic metamaterials. We also successfully demonstrated for the first time simultaneous enhancement in spontaneous emission ad light extraction from active metamaterial structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2015
Accession Number
ADA623931

Entities

People

  • Vinod Menon

Organizations

  • Queens College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Engineering
  • Far Field
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Metamaterials
  • Microscopes
  • Quantum Dots
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Scattering

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene