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ZnO Nanowires on Single-Crystalline Aluminum Film Coupled with an Insulating WO3 Interlayer Manifesting Low Threshold SPP Laser Operation.


ABSTRACT: ZnO nanowire-based surface plasmon polariton (SPP) nanolasers with metal-insulator-semiconductor hierarchical nanostructures have emerged as potential candidates for integrated photonic applications. In the present study, we demonstrated an SPP nanolaser consisting of ZnO nanowires coupled with a single-crystalline aluminum (Al) film and a WO3 dielectric interlayer. High-quality ZnO nanowires were prepared using a vapor phase transport and condensation deposition process via catalyzed growth. Subsequently, prepared ZnO nanowires were transferred onto a single-crystalline Al film grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Meanwhile, a WO3 dielectric interlayer was deposited between the ZnO nanowires and Al film, via e-beam technique, to prevent the optical loss from dominating the metallic region. The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structured SPP laser, with an optimal WO3 insulating layer thickness of 3.6 nm, demonstrated an ultra-low threshold laser operation (lasing threshold of 0.79 MW cm-2). This threshold value was nearly eight times lower than that previously reported in similar ZnO/Al2O3/Al plasmonic lasers, which were ?2.4 and ?3 times suppressed compared to the SPP laser, with WO3 insulating layer thicknesses of 5 nm and 8 nm, respectively. Such suppression of the lasing threshold is attributed to the WO3 insulating layer, which mediated the strong confinement of the optical field in the subwavelength regime.

SUBMITTER: Agarwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557600 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ZnO Nanowires on Single-Crystalline Aluminum Film Coupled with an Insulating WO<sub>3</sub> Interlayer Manifesting Low Threshold SPP Laser Operation.

Agarwal Aanchal A   Tien Wei-Yang WY   Huang Yu-Sheng YS   Mishra Ragini R   Cheng Chang-Wei CW   Gwo Shangjr S   Lu Ming-Yen MY   Chen Lih-Juann LJ  

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200827 9


ZnO nanowire-based surface plasmon polariton (SPP) nanolasers with metal-insulator-semiconductor hierarchical nanostructures have emerged as potential candidates for integrated photonic applications. In the present study, we demonstrated an SPP nanolaser consisting of ZnO nanowires coupled with a single-crystalline aluminum (Al) film and a WO<sub>3</sub> dielectric interlayer. High-quality ZnO nanowires were prepared using a vapor phase transport and condensation deposition process via catalyzed  ...[more]

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