Room-temperature ultraviolet laser emission from self-assembled ZnO microcrystallite thin films

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作者
Tang, ZK [1 ]
Wong, GKL
Yu, P
Kawasaki, M
Ohtomo, A
Koinuma, H
Segawa, Y
机构
[1] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Kowloon, Hong Kong
[2] Tokyo Inst Technol, Mat & Struct Lab, Midori Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 227, Japan
[3] Inst Phys & Chem Res, RIKEN, Photodynam Res Ctr, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980, Japan
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10.1063/1.121620
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Room-temperature ultraviolet (UV) laser emission of ZnO microcrystallite thin films is reported. The hexagonal ZnO microcrystallites are grown by laser molecular beam epitaxy. They are self-assembled and parallelly arrayed on sapphire substrates. The facets of the hexagons form natural Fabry-Perot lasing cavities. The optical gain for the room-temperature UV stimulated emission is of an excitonic nature and has a peak value an order of magnitude larger than that of bulk ZnO crystal. The observation of room-temperature UV lasing from the ordered, nano-sized ZnO crystals represents an important step towards the development of nanometer photoelectronics. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(98)03325-7].
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