Browsing by Author "Sharma, Ashma"

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Citation - WoS: 30
Citation - Scopus: 31
Low-Threshold Lasing From Copper-Doped CDSE Colloidal Quantum Wells
(Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2021) Yu, Junhong; Sharma, Manoj; Li, Mingjie; Delikanli, Savas; Sharma, Ashma; Taimoor, Muhammad; Dang, Cuong
Transition metal doped colloidal nanomaterials (TMDCNMs) have recently attracted attention as promising nano-emitters due to dopant-induced properties. However, despite ample investigations on the steady-state and dynamic spectroscopy of TMDCNMs, experimental understandings of their performance in stimulated emission regimes are still elusive. Here, the optical gain properties of copper-doped CdSe colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) are systemically studied with a wide range of dopant concentration for the first time. This work demonstrates that the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) threshold in copper-doped CQWs is a competing result between the biexciton formation, which is preferred to achieve population inversion, and the hole trapping which stymies the population inversion. An optimum amount of copper dopants enables the lowest ASE threshold of approximate to 7 mu J cm(-2), about 8-fold reduction from that in undoped CQWs (approximate to 58 mu J cm(-2)) under sub-nanosecond pulse excitation. Finally, a copper-doped CQW film embedded in a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) structure yields an ultralow lasing threshold of 4.1 mu J cm(-2). Exploiting optical gain from TMDCNMs may help to further boost the performance of colloidal-based lasers.
Citation - WoS: 24
Citation - Scopus: 26
Management of Electroluminescence From Silver-Doped Colloidal Quantum Well Light-Emitting Diodes
(Cell Press, 2022) Liu, Baiquan; Sharma, Manoj; Yu, Junhong; Wang, Lin; Shendre, Sushant; Sharma, Ashma; Demir, Hilmi Volkan
Impurity doping is a promising strategy to afford colloidal nanocrystals exhibiting novel optical, catalytic, and electronic characteristics. However, some significant properties of noble metal-doped nanocrystals (NMD-NCs) remain unknown. Here, we report the electroluminescence (EL) from NMD-NCs. By doping silver impurity into cad. mium selenide colloidal quantum wells (CQWs), dual-emission emitters are achieved and a light-emitting diode (LED) with a luminance of 1,339 cd m(-2) is reported. In addition, the proposed energy gap engineering to manage exciton recombination is a feasible scheme for tunable EL emissions (e.g., the dopant emission is tuned from 606 to 761 nm). Furthermore, an organic-inorganic hybrid white LED based on CQWs is realized, reaching a color rendering index of 82. Moreover, flexible CQW-LEDs are reported. The findings present a step to unveil the EL property of NMD-NCs, which can be extended to other noble metal impurities, and pave the pathway for NMD-NCs as a class of electronic materials for EL applications.