• DocumentCode
    732652
  • Title

    Photoluminescence upconversion study of GaN nanowires: Potential for optical refrigeration

  • Author

    Ruolin Chen ; Guan Sun ; Ding, Yujie J. ; Nguyen, Hieu P. T. ; Zetian Mi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Up-converted photoluminescence of GaN nanowires is observed at the temperature above 375 K. At 475 K, the mechanism of the photoluminescence was identified as phonon-assisted bandtail emission. Such a phenomenon contributes to optical refrigeration.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; laser cooling; nanowires; photoluminescence; wide band gap semiconductors; GaN; nanowires; optical refrigeration; phonon-assisted bandtail emission; photoluminescence upconversion; temperature 475 K; Cooling; Gallium nitride; Laser excitation; Nanowires; Phonons; Photoluminescence; Plasma temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183088