中国物理B ›› 2007, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (4): 1129-1134.doi: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/4/045

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Optical processes in the formation of stimulated emission from ZnO nanowires

刘瑞斌1, 潘安练1, 王菲菲1, 邹炳锁2   

  1. (1)Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; (2)Micro--Nano Technologies Research Center, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • 收稿日期:2006-08-14 修回日期:2006-09-02 出版日期:2007-04-20 发布日期:2007-04-20
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 20173073), National 973 Project (Grant No 2002CB713802), Nano- and Bio-device Key Project of CAS, 985 Project of Hunan University.

Optical processes in the formation of stimulated emission from ZnO nanowires

Liu Rui-Bin(刘瑞斌)a), Pan An-Lian(潘安练)a), Wang Fei-Fei(王菲菲)a), and Zou Bing-Suo(邹炳锁)a)b)†   

  1. a Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; b Micro--Nano Technologies Research Center, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Received:2006-08-14 Revised:2006-09-02 Online:2007-04-20 Published:2007-04-20
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 20173073), National 973 Project (Grant No 2002CB713802), Nano- and Bio-device Key Project of CAS, 985 Project of Hunan University.

摘要: This paper studies power dependent photoluminescence spectra, the stimulated emission occurring at ultraviolet (UV) band instead of the green emission band of ZnO nanowires, which are prepared with a chemical reduction method. The dynamics of the UV emission and green emission is given to demonstrate the reason of stimulated emission occurring at UV band but not the green emission band under high excitation, which indicates that the slow decay rate of trap state makes it easy to be fully filled and saturated, while the fast decay rate of near-band-edge exciton state makes the UV emission dominate the radiative recombination under high excitation. The UV emission, as well as the corresponding stimulated emission, occurs in competition with the green deep-trap emission. In addition, when pump fluence further increases, the multiple lasing modes appear. The dependence of these lasing modes on the pump fluence is first discussed. This diagram should be helpful to understand and design the optical nanodevices of ZnO nanowires.

Abstract: This paper studies power dependent photoluminescence spectra, the stimulated emission occurring at ultraviolet (UV) band instead of the green emission band of ZnO nanowires, which are prepared with a chemical reduction method. The dynamics of the UV emission and green emission is given to demonstrate the reason of stimulated emission occurring at UV band but not the green emission band under high excitation, which indicates that the slow decay rate of trap state makes it easy to be fully filled and saturated, while the fast decay rate of near-band-edge exciton state makes the UV emission dominate the radiative recombination under high excitation. The UV emission, as well as the corresponding stimulated emission, occurs in competition with the green deep-trap emission. In addition, when pump fluence further increases, the multiple lasing modes appear. The dependence of these lasing modes on the pump fluence is first discussed. This diagram should be helpful to understand and design the optical nanodevices of ZnO nanowires.

Key words: ZnO nanowire, stimulated emission, dynamics, lasing mode

中图分类号:  (II-VI semiconductors)

  • 78.55.Et
78.67.-n (Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures) 78.45.+h (Stimulated emission)