Actively tunable thin films for visible light by thermo-optic modulation of ZnO

Date
2016
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Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
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1862-6300
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
Volume
213
Issue
5
Pages
1340 - 1345
Language
English
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Article
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Applications of active control of light matter interactions within integrated photonics, hyper-spectral imaging, reconfigurable lasers, and selective bio-surfaces have enormously increased the demand for realization of optical modulation covering the spectrum from ultraviolet (UV) up to infrared (IR) wavelength range. In this study, we demonstrate ZnO-based actively tunable perfect absorber operating within UV and visible spectrum with more than 5 nm shift in the resonant absorption wavelength. Using spectroscopic ellipsometry technique, we extract temperature-dependent optical constants of atomic layer-deposited ZnO within 0.3-1.6 and 4-40 μm spectra. We also observe bandgap narrowing of ZnO at elevated temperatures due to lattice relaxation verified by the red-shift of phonon-modes. At around its bandgap, refractive index variations up to 0.2 is obtained and ZnO is shown to exhibit thermo-optic coefficient as high as 9.17 Ã� 10-4 K-1 around the bandgap which is the largest among well-known large bandgap materials. © 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Antireflection coatings, Ellipsometry, Fabry-Perot resonance, Modulators, Thermo-optical materials, Zinc oxide
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