Giant Alloyed Hot Injection Shells Enable Ultralow Optical Gain Threshold in Colloidal Quantum Wells


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Altintas Y., Gungor K., Gao Y., Sak M., Quliyeva U., Bappi G., ...Daha Fazla

ACS NANO, cilt.13, sa.9, ss.10662-10670, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04967
  • Dergi Adı: ACS NANO
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.10662-10670
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: colloidal quantum wells, nanoplatelets, hot-injection growth, optical gain, single-mode lasing, VCSEL, AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION, BIEXCITON AUGER RECOMBINATION, STIMULATED-EMISSION, CDSE NANOPLATELETS, CARRIER DYNAMICS, DOTS, SUPPRESSION, THICKNESS, SIZE
  • Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

As an attractive materials system for high- Record-low optical gain threshold in giant-shell COWs performance optoelectronics, colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs) benefit from atomic-level precision in thickness, minimizing emission inhomogeneous broadening. Much progress has been made to enhance their photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and photostability. However, to date, layer-by-layer growth of shells at room temperature has resulted in defects that limit PLQY and thus curtail the 0.2 performance of NPLs as an optical gain medium. Here, we introduce a hot-injection method growing giant alloyed shells using an approach that reduces core/shell lattice mismatch and suppresses Auger recombination. Near-unity PLQY is achieved with a narrow full-width-at-half-maximum (20 nm), accompanied by emission tunability (from 610 to 650 nm). The biexciton lifetime exceeds 1 ns, an order of magnitude longer than in conventional colloidal quantum dots (CQDs). Reduced Auger recombination enables record-low amplified spontaneous emission threshold of 2.4 mu J cm(-2) under one-photon pumping. This is lower by a factor of 2.5 than the best previously reported value in nanocrystals (6 /kJ cm(-2) for CdSe/CdS NPLs). Here, we also report single-mode lasing operation with a 0.55 mu J cm(-2) threshold under two-photoexcitation, which is also the best among nanocrystals (compared to 0.76 mu J cm(-2) from CdSe/CdS CQDs in the Fabry-Perot cavity). These findings indicate that hot-injection growth of thick alloyed shells makes ultrahigh performance NPLs.