Localized surface plasmon-enhanced near-ultraviolet emission from InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes using silver and platinum nanoparticles.

Localized surface plasmon-enhanced near-ultraviolet emission from InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes using silver and platinum nanoparticles.

Optics express (2013-03-14)

Sang-Hyun Hong, Chu-Young Cho, Sang-Jun Lee, Sang-Youp Yim, Wantae Lim, Sung-Tae Kim, Seong-Ju Park

ABSTRACT

We demonstrate localized surface plasmon (LSP)-enhanced near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (NUV-LEDs) using silver (Ag) and platinum (Pt) nanoparticles (NPs). The optical output power of NUV-LEDs with metal NPs is higher by 20.1% for NUV-LEDs with Ag NPs and 57.9% for NUV-LEDs with Pt NPs at 20 mA than that of NUV-LEDs without metal NPs. The time-resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL) spectra shows that the decay times of NUV-LEDs with Ag and Pt NPs are faster than that of NUV-LEDs without metal NPs. The TR-PL and absorbance spectra of metal NPs indicate that the spontaneous emission rate is increased by resonance coupling between excitons in the multiple quantum wells and LSPs in the metal NPs.

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