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T1 - Electroluminescence enhancement in mid-infrared InAsSb resonant cavity light emitting diodes for CO 2 detection
AU - Al-Saymari, F.A.
AU - Craig, A.P.
AU - Noori, Y.J.
AU - Lu, Q.
AU - Marshall, A.R.J.
AU - Krier, A.
N1 - Copyright 2019 American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, 114, (17) 2019 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5090840 This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - In this work, we demonstrated a mid-infrared resonant cavity light emitting diode (RCLED) operating near 4.2 μm at room temperature, grown lattice-matched on a GaSb substrate by molecular beam epitaxy, suitable for CO 2 gas detection. The device consists of a 1 λ-thick microcavity containing an InAs 0.90 Sb 0.1 active region sandwiched between two high contrast, lattice-matched AlAs 0.08 Sb 0.92 /GaSb distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors. The electroluminescence emission spectra of the RCLED were recorded over the temperature range from 20 to 300 K and compared with a reference LED without DBR mirrors. The RCLED exhibits a strong emission enhancement due to resonant cavity effects. At room temperature, the peak emission and the integrated peak emission were found to be increased by a factor of ∼ 70 and ∼ 11, respectively, while the total integrated emission enhancement was ∼ × 33. This is the highest resonant cavity enhancement ever reported for a mid-infrared LED operating at this wavelength. Furthermore, the RCLED also exhibits a superior temperature stability of ∼ 0.35 nm/K and a significantly narrower (10×) spectral linewidth. High spectral brightness and temperature stable emission entirely within the fundamental absorption band are attractive characteristics for the development of next generation CO 2 gas sensor instrumentation. © 2019 Author(s).
AB - In this work, we demonstrated a mid-infrared resonant cavity light emitting diode (RCLED) operating near 4.2 μm at room temperature, grown lattice-matched on a GaSb substrate by molecular beam epitaxy, suitable for CO 2 gas detection. The device consists of a 1 λ-thick microcavity containing an InAs 0.90 Sb 0.1 active region sandwiched between two high contrast, lattice-matched AlAs 0.08 Sb 0.92 /GaSb distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors. The electroluminescence emission spectra of the RCLED were recorded over the temperature range from 20 to 300 K and compared with a reference LED without DBR mirrors. The RCLED exhibits a strong emission enhancement due to resonant cavity effects. At room temperature, the peak emission and the integrated peak emission were found to be increased by a factor of ∼ 70 and ∼ 11, respectively, while the total integrated emission enhancement was ∼ × 33. This is the highest resonant cavity enhancement ever reported for a mid-infrared LED operating at this wavelength. Furthermore, the RCLED also exhibits a superior temperature stability of ∼ 0.35 nm/K and a significantly narrower (10×) spectral linewidth. High spectral brightness and temperature stable emission entirely within the fundamental absorption band are attractive characteristics for the development of next generation CO 2 gas sensor instrumentation. © 2019 Author(s).
KW - Carbon dioxide
KW - Cavity resonators
KW - Electroluminescence
KW - Emission spectroscopy
KW - Gas detectors
KW - III-V semiconductors
KW - Indium antimonides
KW - Infrared devices
KW - Light
KW - Light emitting diodes
KW - Mirrors
KW - Molecular beam epitaxy
KW - Semiconductor alloys
KW - Distributed bragg reflector mirrors
KW - Electroluminescence emission
KW - Emission enhancement
KW - Integrated emissions
KW - Resonant cavity effect
KW - Resonant cavity enhancement
KW - Resonant cavity light emitting diode
KW - Temperature stability
KW - Gallium compounds
U2 - 10.1063/1.5090840
DO - 10.1063/1.5090840
M3 - Journal article
VL - 114
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
SN - 0003-6951
IS - 17
M1 - 171103
ER -