Effect of deposition period on structural and optical properties of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots formed by InAs/GaAs short-period superlattices

Structural and optical properties of In_0.5Ga_0.5As/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown at 510 °C by atomic layer molecular beam epitaxy technique are studied as a function of n repeated deposition of 1-ML-thick InAs and 1-ML-thick GaAs. Cross-sectional images reveal that the QDs are formed by single large QDs rather than closely stacked InAs QDs and their shape is trapezoidal. In the image, existence of wetting layers is not clear. In 300 K-photoluminescence (PL) spectra of InGaAs QDs (n=5), 4 peaks are resolved. Origin of each peak transition is discussed. Finally, it was found that the PL linewidths of atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) QDs were weakly sensitive to cryostat temperatures (16–300 K). This is attributed to the nature of ALE QDs; higher uniformity and weaker wetting effect compared to SK QDs.     

离子注入对InAs/GaAs量子点光学效质的影响

研究了低能质子注入诱导的界面混合和快速热退火对量子点发光效率的影响，对其光致发光 峰强进行了拟合计算.研究发现量子点的发光峰强度主要由载流子俘获时间和非辐射复合寿 命决定.由于后退火处理能够部分的消除因质子注入造成的缺陷，量子点中非辐射复合中心 浓度与注入剂量成亚线性关系；退火温度越高，非辐射复合中心被消除越多，亚线性程度越 高.界面混合导致的俘获效率的增加和注入损伤引起的非辐射复合是相互竞争过程，存在一 个临界的注入剂量N_C，当注入剂量N小于N_C，界面混合作 用较为明显，量子点 发光峰强随注入剂量增加而增强；当N大于N_C时，质子注入引起了大量的非 辐射复合 中心，主要表现为注入损伤，量子点的发光峰强随注入剂量增加而迅速减弱.退火温度越高 ，N_C越大. 关键词： 量子点 离子注入 峰强     

Molecular beam epitaxy growth and characterization of self-assembled InAs quantum dots on (1 0 0) InAlAs/InP substrates

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) on In_0.52Al_0.48As layer lattice matched to (1 0 0) InP substrates have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and evaluated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and photoluminescence (PL). TEM observations indicate that defect-free InAs QDs can be grown to obtain emissions over the technologically important 1.3–1.55 μm region. The PL peak positions for the QDs shift to low energy as the InAs coverage increases, corresponding to increase in QD size. The room temperature PL peak at 1.58 μm was observed from defect-free InAs QDs with average dot height of 3.6 nm.     

Luminescence properties of ZnS：Cu, Eu semiconductor nanocrystals synthesized by a hydrothermal process

ZnS:Cu, Eu nanocrystals with an average diameter of ～ 80 nm are synthesized using a hydrothermal approach at 200 C. The photoluminescence (PL) properties of the ZnS:Cu, Eu nanocrystals before and after annealing, as well as the doping form of Eu, are studied. The as-synthesized samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry, and the excitation and emission spectra (PL). The results show that both Cu and Eu are indeed incorporated into the ZnS matrix. Compared with the PL spectrum of the Cu mono-doped sample, the PL emission intensity of the Cu and Eu-codoped sample increases and a peak appears at 516 nm, indicating that Eu 3+ ions, which act as an impurity compensator and activator, are incorporated into the ZnS matrix, forming a donor level. Compared with the unannealed sample, the annealed one has an increased PL emission intensity and the peak position has a blue shift of 56 nm from 516 nm to 460 nm, which means that Eu 3+ ions reduce to Eu 2+ ions, thereby leading to the appearance of Eu 2+ characteristic emission and generating effective host-to-Eu 2+ energy transfer. The results indicate the potential applications of ZnS:Cu, Eu nanoparticles in optoelectronic devices.     

Mechanistic investigations on emission characteristics from g-C3N4, g-C3N4@Pt and g-C3N4@Ag nanostructures using X-ray absorption spectroscopy

An improved method for the preparation of g-C₃N₄ is described. Currently, heating (>400 C°) of urea is the common method used for preparing the g-C₃N₄. We have found that sonication of melamine in HNO₃ solution, followed by washing with anhydrous ethanol, not only reduce the crystallite size of g-C₃N₄ but also facilitate intriguing electronic structure and photoluminescence (PL) properties. Moreover, loading of metal (Pt and Ag) nanoparticles, by applying the borohydride reduction method, has resulted in multicolor-emission from g-C₃N₄. With the help of PL spectra and local electronic structure study, at C K-edge, N K-edge, Pt L-edge and Ag K-edge by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), a precise mechanism of tunable luminescence is established. The PL mechanism ascribes the amendments in the transitions, via defect and/or metal states assimilation, between the π* states of tris-triazine ring of g-C₃N₄ and lone pair states of nitride. It is evidenced that interaction between the C/N 2p and metal 4d/5d orbitals of Ag/Pt has manifested a net detraction in the δ*→LP transitions and enhancement in the π*→LP and π*→ π transitions, leading to broad PL spectra from g-C₃N₄ organic semiconductor compound.     

溶胶-凝胶法制备ZnO薄膜及其光致发光性质

利用溶胶-凝胶法在石英衬底上制备了ZnO薄膜,通过测量样品的透射谱、X射线衍射谱、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)图像和光致发光谱研究了其结构特征和发光性质.结果表明:在衍射角2θ=34.32°处出现了对应(002)晶面的强衍射峰,ZnO膜呈多晶状态,具有六角纤矿晶体结构和良好的C轴择优取向,薄膜中颗粒的平均粒径为56nm;光致发光呈多发光峰状,有中心波长为378nm的紫带,520nm绿带,446nm附近的蓝带以及发现未见报道过的绿带以后中心波长为586nm和570nm两个弱发射峰.实验结果表明,制备的ZnO薄膜具有发光特性,但内部与深能级发射相关的结构缺陷浓度还是较高,样品中两个低能量光致发光应来源于晶粒间界的缺陷能级,多缺陷能级导致了多发射峰的光致发光谱.     

Zn1-xCdx S合金薄膜的结构和光学性质

采用低压金属有机化学气相沉积(LP-MOCVD)技术,在普通石英衬底上制备出不同Cd组分(0．02,0．44,0．59,0．83,0．91)的Zn1-xCdxS合金薄膜材料。X射线测量表明样品为单一取向的纤锌矿结构,并且随着x的增加衍射峰位基本成线性地从ZnS衍射峰向CdS衍射峰移动。此外,在PL谱中还可以看出随着样品中Cd含量的增加,发光峰从3．66eV红移到2．43eV。根据发光峰位与Zn1-xCdxS中x的变化关系,推导出它们之间的关系近似为Eg(Zn1-xCdxS)=3．61-1．56x 0．38x^2。还探讨了不同Cd组分薄膜材料的X射线衍射峰半峰全宽以及发光峰半峰全宽的变化。     

Morphology and optical properties of p-type porous GaAs(1 0 0) layers made by electrochemical etching

Porous GaAs layers were formed by electrochemical etching of p-type GaAs(1 0 0) substrates in HF solution. A surface characterization has been performed on p-type GaAs samples using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) technique in order to get information about the chemical composition, particularly on the surface contamination. According to the XPS spectra, the oxide layer on as-received porous GaAs substrates contains As₂O₃, As₂O₅ and Ga₂O₃. Large amount of oxygen is present at the surface before the surface cleaning.Compared to untreated GaAs surface, room temperature photoluminescence (PL) investigations of the porous layers reveal the presence of two PL bands: a PL peak at ∼871 nm and a “visible” PL peak at ∼650-680 nm. Both peak wavelengths and intensities varied from sample to sample depending on the treatment that the samples have undergone. The short PL wavelength at 650-680 nm of the porous layers is attributed to quantum confinement effects in GaAs nano-crystallites. The surface morphology of porous GaAs has been studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Nano-sized crystallites were observed on the porous GaAs surface. An estimation of the mean size of the GaAs nano-crystals obtained from effective mass theory and based on PL data was close to the lowest value obtained from the AFM results.     

Photophysical insights on quantum dots-zinc porphyrazine system studied in solution

The present study reports spontaneous interaction of a quantum dots, namely, CdS_xSe_1-x/ZnS (QD) with zinc porphyrazine (1) in toluene. It is observed from steady state fluorescence measurements that photoluminescence of QD suffers quenching by 1. Time resolved fluorescence measurements reveal small change in the lifetime of QD (16.10 ns) following it interaction with 1 (15.77 ns). The magnitude of k_q for QD-1 system, i.e., k_q ​= ​5.25 ​× ​10¹² ​L⋅mol⁻¹⋅sec⁻¹ (evaluated from the stern-volmer plot) establishes that photoexcited QD undergoes decay by 1 according to static quenching mechanism. The results emerging from above study confirm that QD-1 system may be judiciously applied as an energy storage material in near future.     

Synthesis and Photoluminescence of New Europium Complex Eu(DBM)3 (DPPZ) with Dipyridophenazine Ligand

Dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c] phenazine moiety has been introduced as neutral lignad in europium complex.Therefore a new europium complex with saturate emission,strong fluorescnet intensity and good solubility was designed and synthesized for the first time.Its photoluminescence and UV properties were examined.The experimental results showed that this new Eu-complex could be used as red electroluminescnet materials.