Optical microcavity

About: Optical microcavity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2599 publications have been published within this topic receiving 72125 citations. The topic is also known as: optical microcavities.

Polarization splitting in polariton electroluminescence from an organic semiconductor microcavity with metallic reflectors

Abstract: Organic semiconductors have received considerable attention as the active medium in microcavity devices that exploit the regime of strong exciton–photon coupling. The eigenstates of these systems are microcavity polaritons, whose properties are an admixture of the uncoupled exciton and photon. Organic microcavities are particularly interesting due to their large exciton binding energy which permits the electrical excitation of polaritons at room temperature. Measurements of electroluminescence are often facilitated through the use of metallic reflectors that form the optical microcavity and also serve as device electrodes. Here, we demonstrate that such structures exhibit a significant polarization splitting under both optical and electrical excitation. The size of the polarization splitting rivals those observed in strongly coupled microcavities based on distributed Bragg reflectors having a long optical penetration depth.

Spectroscopy of discrete vertically oriented single-crystals of n-type tetraazaterrylene: understanding the role of defects in molecular semiconductor photovoltaics

Abstract: Recent synthetic work has realized a novel (n-type) small-molecule acceptor, 7,8,15,16-tetra-aza-terrylene (TAT), single-crystals of which can be grown oriented along the c-axis crystallographic direction, and over-coated with pentacene to form a highly ordered donor/acceptor interface for use in organic photovoltaic devices. However, characterization of single TAT crystals reveals highly variable emission spectra and excited state dynamics – properties which strongly influence photovoltaic performance. Through the use of single-crystal widefield imaging, photoluminescence spectroscopy, time correlated single photon counting, and resonant Raman studies, we conclude that this variability is a result of long-lived low-energy trap-emission from packing defects. Interestingly, we also discovered that TAT crystals whose width exceeds ∼200 nm begin acting as waveguides and optical microcavity resonators for their own photoluminescence. Several strategies are proposed for leveraging the size-dependant optical properties of TAT pillars to further enhance device performance using this active layer design.

Raman scattering enhancement in photon-plasmon resonance mediated metal-dielectric microcavity

Abstract: Here, we report the photon-plasmon interaction scheme and enhanced field strengths resulted into the amplification of phonon in a novel microcavity. A metal-dielectric microcavity, with unified cavity photonic mode and localized surface plasmon resonances, is visualized by impregnating the gold nanoparticles into the deep see-through nano-sized pores of porous silicon microcavity. The intense optical field strengths resulting from the photon-plasmon interactions are probed by both resonant and non-resonant Raman scattering experiments. Due to photon-plasmon-phonon interaction mechanism, several orders of enhancement in the intensity of scattered Raman Stokes photon (at 500 cm−1) are observed. Our metal nanoparticle-microcavity hybrid system shows the potential to improve the sensing figure of merit as well as the applications of plasmonics for optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and related technologies.