Abstract
Electrically pumped lasing from hybrid organic–inorganic metal-halide perovskite semiconductors could lead to nonepitaxial diode lasers that are tunable throughout the visible and near-infrared spectrum; however, a viable laser diode architecture has not been demonstrated to date. Here, an important step toward this goal is achieved by demonstrating two distinct distributed feedback light-emitting diode architectures that achieve low threshold, optically pumped lasing. Bottom- and top-emitting perovskite light-emitting diodes are fabricated on glass and Si substrates, respectively, using a polydimethylsiloxane stamp in the latter case to nanoimprint a second-order distributed feedback grating directly into the methylammonium lead iodide active layer. The devices exhibit room temperature thresholds as low as ≈6 µJ cm−2, a peak external quantum efficiency of ≈0.1%, and a maximum current density of ≈2 A cm−2 that is presently limited by degradation associated with excessive leakage current. In this low current regime, electrical injection does not adversely affect the optical pump threshold, leading to a projected threshold current density of ≈2 kA cm−2. Operation at low temperature can significantly decrease this threshold, but must overcome extrinsic carrier freeze-out in the doped organic transport layers to maintain a reasonable drive voltage.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1901297 |
Journal | Advanced Optical Materials |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:H.K. and K.R. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-18-1-0037 and by IP Group, and by the National Science Foundation under DMR-1807797.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Keywords
- distributed feedback lasers
- hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites
- light-emitting diodes
- nanoimprinting