Modified emission of semiconductor nano-dots in three-dimensional photonic crystals |
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Authors: | Khokhar A.Z. De La Rue R.M. Johnson N.P. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow; |
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Abstract: | Mono-dispersed polystyrene spheres were used to grow synthetic opal photonic crystals on glass substrates using controlled evaporation. Commercially available cadmium telluride (CdTe) semiconductor nano-dots with emission in the visible were infiltrated into a slice of opal voids by capillary action. The optical properties of CdTe dot loaded opal were studied by using a white light source and showed a red shift of the opal stop-band due to an increase in the effective refractive index. The emission of the CdTe dots was matched with the edge of the (111) direction stop-band of bare opal. Stop-band confined emission from CdTe dots was observed by pumping with an argon-ion laser. The full width at half maximum of the CdTe emission from an infiltrated section of the opal was significantly reduced due to the stop-band effect of bare opal. |
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