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Nanofabrication of Gate-defined GaAs/AlGaAs Lateral Quantum Dots
Published on: November 1, 2013
Quantum Dots on Flexible Nanohole Arrays Support Stable Nanolasing
Shaobin Zheng1,2,3,4, Qinglin Ji1,2,3, Yungao Chen1,2,3
1State Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.
Abstract:
Nanostructure lattices offer a compact platform for small, coherent light sources but suffer from compromised emission stability under mechanical deformation. In this study, we demonstrate a flexible nanolaser comprising a perovskite quantum dot (QD) film and a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanohole array filled with QDs, which maintains robust lasing performance with stable wavelength and intensity under bending and stretching. This nanolaser, fabricated via nanoimprint and QD drop-casting processes, leverages guided-mode resonance (GMR) for lasing emission at 532 nm with a threshold down to ∼15 μJ/cm2. Moreover, we engineer the PDMS nanohole array (Poisson's ratio ≈0.5) to ensure that the nanolaser has a stable effective period and resonance wavelength under deformation. Thus, the nanolaser can maintain a stable wavelength under up to 15% tensile strain and over 1000 stretching cycles under 5% strain. By utilizing the flexibility and normal emission to local array structures of the nanolaser, emission-direction steering over a ±50° range, rotation-rate measurement, and beam-angle control are demonstrated. Facial recognition is proposed as one of the potential applications of flexible, stable nanolasers, and wider employment in human-computer interactions and embodied intelligence scenarios is expected.
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