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An Efficiently Excited Eu3+ Luminescent Site Formed In Eu,O-Codoped Gan, Takenori Iwaya, Shuhei Ichikawa, Volkmar Dierolf, Brandon Mitchell, Hayley Austin, Dolf Timmerman, Jun Tatebayashi, Yasufumi Fujiwara Feb 2024

An Efficiently Excited Eu3+ Luminescent Site Formed In Eu,O-Codoped Gan, Takenori Iwaya, Shuhei Ichikawa, Volkmar Dierolf, Brandon Mitchell, Hayley Austin, Dolf Timmerman, Jun Tatebayashi, Yasufumi Fujiwara

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For the development of III-nitride-semiconductor-based monolithic micro-light-emitting diode (LED) displays, Eu,O-codoped GaN (GaN:Eu,O) is a promising material candidate for the red LEDs. The luminescence efficiency of Eu-related emission strongly depends on the local atomic structure of Eu ions. Our previous research has revealed that post-growth thermal annealing is an effective method for reconfiguring luminescent sites, leading to a significant increase in light output. We observed the preferential formation of a site with a peak at similar to 2.004 eV by the annealing process. In this study, we demonstrate that it is a previously unidentified independent site (OMVPE-X) using combined excitation-emission …


Enhanced Luminescence Efficiency In Eu-Doped Gan Superlattice Structures Revealed By Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy, Fumikazu Murakami, Atsushi Takeo, Brandon Mitchell, Volkmar Dierolf, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Masayoshi Tonouchi Nov 2023

Enhanced Luminescence Efficiency In Eu-Doped Gan Superlattice Structures Revealed By Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy, Fumikazu Murakami, Atsushi Takeo, Brandon Mitchell, Volkmar Dierolf, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Masayoshi Tonouchi

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Eu-doped Gallium nitride (GaN) is a promising candidate for GaN-based red light-emitting diodes, which are needed for future micro-display technologies. Introducing a superlattice structure comprised of alternating undoped and Eu-doped GaN layers has been observed to lead to an order-of-magnitude increase in output power; however, the underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we explore the optical and electrical properties of these superlattice structures utilizing terahertz emission spectroscopy. We find that ~0.1% Eu doping reduces the bandgap of GaN by ~40 meV and increases the index of refraction by ~20%, which would result in potential barriers and carrier confinement within a superlattice …


Enhancement Of Er Luminescence From Bridge-Type Photonic Crystal Nanocavities With Er, O-Co-Doped Gaas, Zhidong Fang, Jun Tatebayashi, Ryohei Homi, Masayuki Ogawa, Hirotake Kajii, Masahiko Kondow, Kyoko Kitamura, Brandon Mitchell, Shuhei Ichikawa, Yasufumi Fujiwara Oct 2023

Enhancement Of Er Luminescence From Bridge-Type Photonic Crystal Nanocavities With Er, O-Co-Doped Gaas, Zhidong Fang, Jun Tatebayashi, Ryohei Homi, Masayuki Ogawa, Hirotake Kajii, Masahiko Kondow, Kyoko Kitamura, Brandon Mitchell, Shuhei Ichikawa, Yasufumi Fujiwara

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A bridge-type photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavity based on Er,O-codoped GaAs is employed to realize enhancement of Er luminescence. By adjusting the structural design and measurement temperature, the cavity mode's wavelength can be coupled to Er luminescence. The peak emission intensity from an Er-2O defect center was enhanced 7.3 times at 40 nW pump power and 77 K. The experimental Q-factor is estimated to be over 1.2 x 104, and the luminescence intensity shows superlinearity with excitation power, suggesting Er luminescence amplification. This result would pave the way towards the realization of highly efficient single-photon emitters based on rare-earth elements.


Review Of Elastic Light Scattering From Single Aerosol Particles And Application In Bioaerosol Detection, Yong-Le Pan, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Jessica Arnold, Samuel Cheng, Aimable Kalume, Patricio Piedra, Chuji Wang, Joshua Santarpia, Gorden Videen Mar 2022

Review Of Elastic Light Scattering From Single Aerosol Particles And Application In Bioaerosol Detection, Yong-Le Pan, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Jessica Arnold, Samuel Cheng, Aimable Kalume, Patricio Piedra, Chuji Wang, Joshua Santarpia, Gorden Videen

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

Elastic light scattering (ELS) from single micron-sized particles has been used as a fast, non-destructive diagnostic tool in life science, physics, chemistry, climatology, and astrophysics. Due to the large scattering cross-section, ELS can be used to find trace amounts of suspect particles such as bioaerosols among complex, diverse atmospheric aerosols, based on single-particle interrogation. In this article, we briefly summarized the main computational models and instrumentation developed for ELS, then reviewed how properties like particle size, refractive index, degree of symmetry, and surface roughness, in addition to packing density, shape of primary particles in an aggregate, and special helix structures …


Modeling Defect Mediated Color-Tunability In Leds With Eu-Doped Gan-Based Active Layers, Hayley J. Austin, Brandon Mitchell, Dolf Timmerman, Jun Tatebayashi, Shuhei Ichikawa, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Volkmar Dierolf Jan 2022

Modeling Defect Mediated Color-Tunability In Leds With Eu-Doped Gan-Based Active Layers, Hayley J. Austin, Brandon Mitchell, Dolf Timmerman, Jun Tatebayashi, Shuhei Ichikawa, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Volkmar Dierolf

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

Color tunability from red to orange to yellow has been demonstrated in GaN-based LED devices with Eu-doped GaN layers as the active region. Under current injection, this is achieved by varying the current density and the pulse conditions. The underlying mechanism behind this color tunability is a redistribution of energy among the D-5(J) states of a Eu3+ ion. This energy shuffling is facilitated by a local defect that has been neglected in previous modeling work. Including this defect allows for a quantitative prediction of the relative time-averaged populations of the Eu3+ ion's D-5(0) and D-5(1) states. Extracting, from experimental results, …


Nanoaperture Fabrication Via Colloidal Lithography For Single Molecule Fluorescence Analysis, Ryan M. Jamiolkowski, Kevin Y. Chen, Shane A. Fiorenza, Alyssa M. Tate, Shawn H. Pfeil, Yale E. Goldman Oct 2019

Nanoaperture Fabrication Via Colloidal Lithography For Single Molecule Fluorescence Analysis, Ryan M. Jamiolkowski, Kevin Y. Chen, Shane A. Fiorenza, Alyssa M. Tate, Shawn H. Pfeil, Yale E. Goldman

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In single molecule fluorescence studies, background emission from labeled substrates often restricts their concentrations to non-physiological nanomolar values. One approach to address this challenge is the use of zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs), nanoscale holes in a thin metal film that physically and optically confine the observation volume allowing much higher concentrations of fluorescent substrates. Standard fabrication of ZMWs utilizes slow and costly E-beam nano-lithography. Herein, ZMWs are made using a self-assembled mask of polystyrene microspheres, enabling fabrication of thousands of ZMWs in parallel without sophisticated equipment. Polystyrene 1 mu m dia. microbeads self-assemble on a glass slide into a hexagonal array, …


Correlations Between Short- And Long-Time Relaxation In Colloidal Supercooled Liquids And Glasses, Chandan K. Mishra, Xiaoguang Ma, Piotr Habdas, Kevin B. Aptowicz, A. G. Yodh Aug 2019

Correlations Between Short- And Long-Time Relaxation In Colloidal Supercooled Liquids And Glasses, Chandan K. Mishra, Xiaoguang Ma, Piotr Habdas, Kevin B. Aptowicz, A. G. Yodh

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of short- and long-time structural relaxation are measured experimentally as a function of packing fraction, φ, in quasi-two-dimensional colloidal supercooled liquids and glasses. The relaxation times associated with long-time dynamic heterogeneity and short-time intracage motion are found to be strongly correlated and to grow by orders of magnitude with increasing φ toward dynamic arrest. We find that clusters of fast particles on the two timescales often overlap, and, interestingly, the distribution of minimum-spatial-separation between closest nonoverlapping clusters across the two timescales is revealed to be exponential with a decay length that increases with φ. In total, the experimental …


Excess Electron Screening Of Remote Donors And Mobility In Modern Gaas/Algaas Heterostructures, M. Sammon, Tianran Chen, B. I. Shklovskii Oct 2018

Excess Electron Screening Of Remote Donors And Mobility In Modern Gaas/Algaas Heterostructures, M. Sammon, Tianran Chen, B. I. Shklovskii

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In modern GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs heterostructures with record high mobilities, a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a quantum well is provided by two remote donor δ-layers placed on both sides of the well. Each δ-layer is located within a narrow GaAs layer, flanked by narrow AlAs layers which capture excess electrons from donors but leave each of them localized in a compact dipole atom with a donor. Still excess electrons can hop between host donors to minimize their Coulomb energy. As a result they screen the random potential of donors dramatically. We numerically model the pseudoground state of excess electrons at a …


Measuring The Practical Particle-In-A-Box: Orthorhombic Perovskite Nanocrystals, Brandon Mitchell, Eric Herrmann, Junhao Lin, Leyre Gomez, Chris De Weerd, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Kazutomo Suenaga, Tom Gregorkiewicz Sep 2018

Measuring The Practical Particle-In-A-Box: Orthorhombic Perovskite Nanocrystals, Brandon Mitchell, Eric Herrmann, Junhao Lin, Leyre Gomez, Chris De Weerd, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Kazutomo Suenaga, Tom Gregorkiewicz

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A connection between condensed matter physics and basic quantum mechanics is demonstrated as we use the fundamental 3D particle-in-a-box model to explain the optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals, which are substantially modified due to quantum confinement. We also discuss recent advances in the imaging and measurement capabilities of transmission electron microscopy, which have made it possible to directly image single nanocrystals while simultaneously measuring their characteristic absorption energies. We introduce the basic theory of nanocrystals and derive a simplified expression to approximate the optical bandgap energy of an orthorhombic nanocrystal. CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals are used to demonstrate this model due …


Vibrational And Structural Signatures Of The Crossover Between Dense Glassy And Sparse Gel-Like Attractive Colloidal Packings, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Raman Ganti, Matthew D. Gratale, Zoey S. Davidson, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Carl P. Goodrich, Daniel M. Sussman, A. G. Yodh Dec 2014

Vibrational And Structural Signatures Of The Crossover Between Dense Glassy And Sparse Gel-Like Attractive Colloidal Packings, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Raman Ganti, Matthew D. Gratale, Zoey S. Davidson, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Carl P. Goodrich, Daniel M. Sussman, A. G. Yodh

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

We investigate the vibrational modes of quasi-two-dimensional disordered colloidal packings of hard colloidal spheres with short-range attractions as a function of packing fraction. Certain properties of the vibrational density of states (vDOS) are shown to correlate with the density and structure of the samples (i.e., in sparsely versus densely packed samples). Specifically, a crossover from dense glassy to sparse gel-like states is suggested by an excess of phonon modes at low frequency and by a variation in the slope of the vDOS with frequency at low frequency. This change in phonon mode distribution is demonstrated to arise largely from localized …