Title :
Surface plasmon dispersion engineering via double-metallic Au / Ag layers for nitride light-emitting diodes
Author :
Zhao, Hongping ; Zhang, Jing ; Liu, Guangyu ; Tansu, Nelson
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
The use of double-metallic Au / Ag layers coupled to InGaN quantum well (QW) results in wide-spectrum tuning of the Purcell peak enhancement of the spontaneous recombination rate for nitride light-emitting diodes.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; gold; indium compounds; integrated optics; light emitting diodes; metallic thin films; optical dispersion; optical films; optical tuning; semiconductor quantum wells; silver; surface plasmons; Au-Ag-InGaN; GaN; Purcell peak enhancement; double-metallic layers; nitride light-emitting diodes; quantum well; spontaneous recombination; surface plasmon dispersion; wide-spectrum tuning; Coatings; Gallium nitride; Gold; Light emitting diodes; Radiative recombination; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
