Browsing by Author "Pan, Z."

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Hybrid dielectric-plasmonic nanoantenna with multiresonances for subwavelength photon sources
(American Chemical Society, 2023-03-15) Dmitriev, P. A.; Lassalle, E.; Ding, L.; Pan, Z.; Neo, D. C. J.; Valuckas, V.; Paniagua-D., R.; Yang, J. K. W.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Kuznetsov, A. I.
The enhancement of the photoluminescence of quantum dots induced by an optical nanoantenna has been studied considerably, but there is still significant interest in optimizing and miniaturizing such structures, especially when accompanied by an experimental demonstration. Most of the realizations use plasmonic platforms, and some also use all-dielectric nanoantennas, but hybrid dielectric-plasmonic (subwavelength) nanostructures have been very little explored. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate single subwavelength hybrid dielectric-plasmonic optical nanoantennas coupled to localized quantum dot emitters that constitute efficient and bright unidirectional photon sources under optical pumping. To achieve this, we devised a silicon nanoring sitting on a gold mirror with a 10 nm gap in-between, where an assembly of colloidal quantum dots is embedded. Such a structure supports both (radiative) antenna mode and (nonradiative) gap mode resonances, which we exploit for the dual purpose of out-coupling the light emitted by the quantum dots into the far-field with out-of-plane directivity, and for enhancing the excitation of the dots by the optical pump. Moreover, almost independent control of the resonance spectral positions can be achieved by simple tuning of geometrical parameters such as the ring inner and outer diameters, allowing us to conveniently adjust these resonances with respect to the quantum dots emission and absorption wavelengths. Using the proposed architecture, we obtain experimentally average fluorescence enhancement factors up to 654× folds mainly due to high radiative efficiencies, and associated with a directional emission of the photoluminescence into a cone of ±17° in the direction normal to the sample plane. We believe the solution presented here to be viable and relevant for the next generation of light-emitting devices.
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Lasing action in single subwavelength particles supporting supercavity modes
(American Chemical Society, 2020-05) Mylnikov, V.; Ha, S. T.; Pan, Z.; Valuckas, V.; Paniagua-Domínguez, R.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Kuznetsov, A. I.
On-chip light sources are critical for the realization of fully integrated photonic circuitry. So far, semiconductor miniaturized lasers have been mainly limited to sizes on the order of a few microns. Further reduction of sizes is challenging fundamentally due to the associated radiative losses. While using plasmonic metals helps to reduce radiative losses and sizes, they also introduce Ohmic losses hindering real improvements. In this work, we show that, making use of quasibound states in the continuum, or supercavity modes, we circumvent these fundamental issues and realize one of the smallest purely semiconductor nanolasers thus far. Here, the nanolaser structure is based on a single semiconductor nanocylinder that intentionally takes advantage of the destructive interference between two supported optical modes, namely Fabry–Perot and Mie modes, to obtain a significant enhancement in the quality factor of the cavity. We experimentally demonstrate the concept and obtain optically pumped lasing action using GaAs at cryogenic temperatures. The optimal nanocylinder size is as small as 500 nm in diameter and only 330 nm in height with a lasing wavelength around 825 nm, corresponding to a size-to-wavelength ratio as low as 0.6.
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Ultrahigh-efficiency aqueous flat nanocrystals of CdSe/CdS@Cd1−xZnxS colloidal core/crown@alloyed-shell quantum wells
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019) Shendre, S.; Delikanlı, Savaş; Li, M.; Dede, Didem; Pan, Z.; Ha, S. T.; Fu, Y. H.; Hernández-Martínez, Pedro L.; Yu, J.; Erdem, Onur; Kuznetsov, A. I.; Dang, C.; Sum, T. C.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan
Colloidal semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs) are highly promising luminescent materials owing to their exceptionally narrow emission spectra. While high-efficiency NPLs in non-polar organic media can be obtained readily, NPLs in aqueous media suffer from extremely low quantum yields (QYs), which completely undermines their potential, especially in biological applications. Here, we show high-efficiency water-soluble CdSe/CdS@Cd1−xZnxS core/crown@shell NPLs formed by layer-by-layer grown and composition-tuned gradient Cd1−xZnxS shells on CdSe/CdS core/crown seeds. Such control of shell composition with monolayer precision and effective peripheral crown passivation, together with the compact capping density of short 3-mercaptopropionic acid ligands, allow for QYs reaching 90% in water, accompanied by a significantly increased photoluminescence lifetime (∼35 ns), indicating the suppression of nonradiative channels in these NPLs. We also demonstrate the controlled attachment of these NPLs without stacking at the nanoscale by taking advantage of their 2D geometry and hydrophilicity. This is a significant step in achieving controlled assemblies and overcoming the stacking process, which otherwise undermines their film formation and performance in optoelectronic applications. Moreover, we show that the parallel orientation of such NPLs achieved by the controlled attachment enables directed emission perpendicular to the surface of the NPL films, which is highly advantageous for light extraction in light-emitting platforms..