Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers
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Room-temperature ultraviolet lasing in semiconductor nanowire arrays has been demonstrated. The self-organized, <0001> oriented zinc oxide nanowires grown on sapphire substrates were synthesized with a simple vapor transport and condensation process. These wide band-gap semiconductor nanowires form natural laser cavities with diameters varying from 20 to 150 nanometers and lengths up to 10 micrometers. Under optical excitation, surface-emitting lasing action was observed at 385 nanometers, with an emission linewidth less than 0.3 nanometer. The chemical flexibility and the one-dimensionality of the nanowires make them ideal miniaturized laser light sources. These short-wavelength nanolasers could have myriad applications, including optical computing, information storage, and microanalysis.
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A simple estimation of the possible number of transversal modes that a waveguide can support indicates that our nanowires with diameters between 80 and 120 nm are actually single-mode waveguides for ultraviolet light.
This work was supported by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation the 3M Corporation the NSF through a Career Award (DMR-0092086) the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California Berkeley. P.Y. is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was supported by the Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences Division of Materials Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00098. H.K. thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. We thank the National Center for Electron Microscopy for the use of their facilities.