[10/30] The 5th WPI-AIMR Joint Seminar in FY2015

10/23/2015

The 5th WPI-AIMR Joint Seminar in FY2015

Title

Development of Unexplored Frequency Semiconductor Light Sources ; Deep-UV LEDs and THz-QCLs

Speaker

Dr. Hideki Hirayama
(RIKEN Quantum Optodevice Laboratory)

Date

Oct. 30 (Fri.), 2015 16:00-17:00

Venue

Seminar Room, 2nd floor, WPI-AIMR Main Bldg.

Abstract

The development of new-frequency semiconductor light sources, such as deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs) and terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (THz-QCLs) is one of the most important subjects, because they are quite useful for variety of applications such as sterilization, water-purifications, medical fields or non-destructive seeing-through examinations, and so on. We are developing unexplored frequency DUV-LEDs and THz-QCLs using wide-bandgap AlGaN and GaAs based semiconductors. We achieved 222-351 nm DUV-LEDs by developing AlGaN/AlN crystal growth techniques. We have also developed THz-QCLs using GaAs and GaN based semiconductors. We achieved high operating temperature for low frequency QCL by introducing a novel quantum structure. We also achieved the first demonstration of GaN based QCLs.

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Fig. 1 Schematic structure and operating spectra of AlN/AlGaN DUV LEDs   Fig. 2 Schematic structure and operating characteristics of GaN/AlGaN THz-QCL

 

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