Enhancement of light extraction from light emitting diodes

AI Zhmakin - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
The large amount of light emitted from a light emitting diode (LED) being trapped inside the
semiconductor structure is the consequence of the large value of the refractive index. The …

Metallic nanostructures for efficient LED lighting

G Lozano, SRK Rodriguez, MA Verschuuren… - Light: Science & …, 2016 - nature.com
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are driving a shift toward energy-efficient illumination.
Nonetheless, modifying the emission intensities, colors and directionalities of LEDs in …

III-nitride photonics

N Tansu, H Zhao, G Liu, XH Li, J Zhang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The progress in III-Nitride photonics research in 2009 is reviewed. The III-Nitride photonics
research is a very active field with many important applications in the areas of energy …

Practicable enhancement of spontaneous emission using surface plasmons

G Sun, JB Khurgin, RA Soref - Applied physics letters, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The authors develop a rigorous theory of the enhancement of spontaneous emission from a
light emitting device via coupling the radiant energy in and out of surface plasmon polaritons …

High-efficiency light emission by means of exciton–surface-plasmon coupling

K Okamoto, M Funato, Y Kawakami… - Journal of Photochemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Coupling between surface plasmons (SPs) and excitons can be used to enhance the
emission efficiencies of light-emitting materials and devices. This approach had been …

Surface plasmon dispersion engineering via double-metallic Au/Ag layers for III-nitride based light-emitting diodes

H Zhao, J Zhang, G Liu, N Tansu - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Double-metallic Au/Ag layers deposited on top of InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) are
used to tune the Purcell peak enhancement of the radiative recombination rate for nitride …

High-efficiency InGaN/GaN light emitters based on nanophotonics and plasmonics

K Okamoto, Y Kawakami - IEEE Journal of selected topics in …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report novel methods to enhance light emission efficiencies from InGaN/GaN quantum
wells (QWs) based on nanophotonics and plasmonics. First, the nanoscopic optical …

Enhancement of luminescence efficiency using surface plasmon polaritons: figures of merit

JB Khurgin, G Sun, RA Soref - JOSA B, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We develop a rigorous theory of the enhancement of spontaneous emission from a light-
emitting device via coupling the radiant energy in and out of surface plasmon polaritons …

Quantum-dot exciton dynamics with a surface plasmon: Band-edge quantum optics

YN Chen, GY Chen, DS Chuu, T Brandes - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2009 - APS
We examine the spontaneous emission of a two-level emitter, quantum-dot exciton, into
surface plasmons propagating on the surface of a cylindrical nanowire. The numerically …

Assessing the location of surface plasmons over nanotriangle and nanohole arrays of different size and periodicity

D Correia-Ledo, KF Gibson, A Dhawan… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The increasing popularity of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and surface enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS) sensor design based on nanotriangle or nanohole arrays, and the …