TURNING-OVER OF THE ELECTRIC DIPOLE IN A POLYMER*

The transition from the biexciton to the exciton can turn over the direction of the electric dipole of a polymericmolecule. This turning-over action combined with the photoinduced polarization reversion can be used as a switch. Theswitching speed is governed by the relaxation time of the turning-over process, which can be determined by a dynamicalsimulation.     

The influence of exciton behavior on luminescent characteristics of organic light-emitting diodes

We used N,N′-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-1-diphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diamine (NPB), 4,4′-N,N′-dicarbazole-biphenyl (CBP) and tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq₃) to fabricate tri-layer electroluminescent (EL) device (device structure: ITO/NPB/CBP/Alq₃/Al). In photoluminescence (PL) spectra of this device, the emission from NPB shifted to shorter wavelength accompanying with the decrease of its emission intensity and moreover the emission intensity of Alq₃ increased relatively with the increase of reverse bias voltage. The blue-shifted emission and the decrease in emission intensity of NPB were attributed to the polarization and dissociation of NPB excitons under reverse bias voltage. The increase of emission intensity of Alq₃ benefited from the recombination of electrons (produced by the dissociation of NPB exciton) and holes (injected from the Al cathode).     

The effect of electric field strength on electroplex emission at the interface of NPB/PBD organic light-emitting diodes

Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) based on two kinds of blue emission materials N,N′-bis(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-l,l′-diphenyl-4,4′-diamine (NPB) and 2-(4-biphenylyl)-5(4-tert-butyl-phenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (PBD) was fabricated. There is only one emission peak in photoluminescence (PL) spectrum which originates from NPB exciton emission. And the electroluminescence (EL) emission peaks have an apparent red-shift with the increase of driving voltage. The red-shift emission from exciplex emission could be ruled out. Thus, by the method of Gaussian fitting it should be ascribed to the overlap of exciton emission and electroplex emission which occurs at the interface between NPB and PBD. The formation of the electroplex emission under high electric field is analyzed.     

ZnO based planar and micropillar resonators

In this paper we report on planar and microscopic cylindrical resonators with ZnO as the cavity and active medium surrounded with ZrO₂/MgO Bragg reflectors. We have observed resonator behaviour of these structures and, for the planar resonators, exciton–polariton coupling with a mode splitting of about 50 meV.     

Excitonic effects in molecular crystals built up by small organic molecules

The excitonic effects of biphenyl and 2,2′-bithiophene are investigated within an ab initio framework. For this purpose the Bethe–Salpeter equation for the two-particle Greens function is solved. Therefrom the imaginary part of the dielectric function is derived, which includes the electron–hole interaction in the absorption process. It turns out that these organic molecular crystals, which are built by small molecules, give rise to sizeable exciton binding-energies, which are between 0.7 and 0.8 eV. To study the influence of the intermolecular interaction, the exciton binding energy of crystalline biphenyl is calculated as a function of pressure. The decrease of both, the band gap and the exciton binding energy, results in a slight red-shift of the lowest optically active singlet exciton.     

Energy transfer between excitons and plasmons in semiconductor-metal hybrid nanostructures

We summarized our recent optical studies on semiconductor nanoparticle (NP) based hybrid nanostructures: isolated CdSe NPs on Au substrates, close-packed CdSe NP monolayers on Au substrates, and close-packed monolayers of mixed CdSe/Au NPs. Luminescence properties of semiconductor-metal hybrid nanostructures were studied by space-resolved optical imaging spectroscopy and time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy. The luminescence spectra and dynamics of isolated and assembled NPs depend on the local environments. We discuss exciton-plasmon interactions in semiconductor-metal hybrid nanostructures.     

Spatial condensation of trapped polaritons in graphene and semiconductor structures

The theoretical and experimental status of the Bose–Einstein Condensation (BEC) of trapped quantum well (QW) polaritons in a microcavity is presented. The results of recent experiments that have shown the possibility to create an in-plane harmonic potential trap for a two-dimensional (2D) exciton polaritons in a cavity are discussed. We report the theory of BEC and of the trapped QW exciton polaritons in a microcavity. In addition, we study the BEC of trapped magnetoexciton polaritons in a graphene layer (GL) embedded in an optical microcavity in high magnetic field. In both cases the polaritons are considered to be in a harmonic potential trap. We compare the theoretical results with the existing experiments and discuss the experimental observation of predicted phenomena.     

Exciton states and interband optical transitions in wurtzite InGaN/GaN quantum dot nanowire heterostructures

Within the framework of the effective-mass approximation, the exciton states and interband optical transitions in In_xGa_1−xN/GaN strained quantum dot (QD) nanowire heterostructures are investigated using a variational method, in which the important built-in electric field (BEF) effects, dielectric-constant mismatch and three-dimensional confinement of the electron and hole in In_xGa_1−xN QDs are considered. We find that the strong BEF gives rise to an obvious reduction of the effective band gap of QDs and leads to a remarkable electron-hole spatial separation. The BEF, QD height and radius, and dielectric mismatch effects have a significant influence on exciton binding energy, electron interband optical transitions, and the exciton oscillator strength.