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    Controlled photoluminescence in amorphous-silicon-nitride microcavities
    (2001) Serpengüzel, A.; Tanriseven, S.
    Narrow-band and enhanced photoluminescence have been observed in hydrogenated amorphous-silicon-nitride microcavities. The distributed Bragg reflectors were fabricated using alternating layers of hydrogenated amorphous-silicon nitride and hydrogenated amorphous-silicon oxide. The microcavity resonance wavelength was designed to be at the maximum of the bulk hydrogenated amorphous-silicon-nitride luminescence spectrum. At the microcavity resonance, the phololuminescence amplitude is enhanced, while the photoluminescence linewidth is reduced with respect to the bulk hydrogenated amorphous-silicon nitride. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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    Propagation of light through localized coupled-cavity modes in one-dimensional photonic band-gap structures
    (Springer-Verlag, 2001) Bayındır, Mehmet; Tanriseven, S.; Özbay, Ekmel
    We report on the observation of a new type of propagation mechanism through evanescent coupled optical cavity modes in one-dimensional photonic crystals. The crystal is fabricated from alternating silicon-oxide/silicon-nitride pairs with silicon-oxide cavity layers. We achieved nearly full transmission throughout the guiding band of the periodic coupled cavities within the photonic band gap. The tight-binding (TB) parameter K is determined from experimental results, and the dispersion relation, group velocity and photon lifetime corresponding to the coupled-cavity structures are analyzed within the TB approximation. The measurements are in good agreement with transfer-matrix-method simulations and predictions of the TB photon picture.
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    Strong enhancement of spontaneous emission in amorphous-silicon-nitride photonic crystal based coupled-microcavity structures
    (Wiley, 2001) Bayındır, Mehmet; Tanriseven, S.; Aydınlı, Atilla; Özbay, Ekmel
    We investigated photoluminescence (PL) from one-dimensional photonic band gap structures. The photonic crystals, a Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator and a coupled-microcavity (CMC) structure, were fabricated by using alternating hydrogenated amorphous-silicon-nitride and hydrogenated amorphous-silicon-oxide layers. It was observed that these structures strongly modify the PL spectra from optically active amorphous-silicon-nitride thin films. Narrow-band and wide-band PL spectra were achieved in the FP microcavity and the CMC structure, respectively. The angle dependence of PL peak of the FP resonator was also investigated. We also observed that the spontaneous emission increased drastically at the coupled-cavity band edge of the CMC structure due to extremely low group velocity and long photon lifetime. The measurements agree well with the transfer-matrix method results and the prediction of the tight-binding approximation.