51. Room temperature excitonic stimulated emission from zinc oxide epilayers grown by plasma-assisted MBE
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Takenari Goto, Mengyan Shen, Takafumi Yao, Darren M. Bagnall, Ziqiang Zhu, and Yefan Chen
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Photoluminescence ,Chemistry ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Exciton ,Analytical chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Laser ,law.invention ,Inorganic Chemistry ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,law ,Materials Chemistry ,Optoelectronics ,Spontaneous emission ,Stimulated emission ,Emission spectrum ,business ,Lasing threshold ,Molecular beam epitaxy - Abstract
Spontaneous, stimulated and laser emission spectra of ZnO epitaxial layers, grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, are presented. Samples are found to exhibit high-intensity near band-edge emissions at room temperature, this is attributed to a dramatic reduction in the intensity of the deep-level emission which dominates ZnO produced by other techniques. Stimulated emission at room temperature is found to be due to exciton—exciton scattering at intermediate excitation intensities while at higher excitation intensities electron—hole plasma emission dominates. An example of longitudinal cavity modes is provided, clearly showing lasing at room temperature.
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- 1998