A room temperature continuous-wave nanolaser using colloidal quantum wells

Zhili Yang; Matthew Pelton; Igor Fedin; Dmitri V. Talapin; Edo Waks

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00198-z

Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

A room temperature continuous-wave nanolaser using colloidal quantum wells

Zhili Yang,
Matthew Pelton,
Igor Fedin,
Dmitri V. Talapin,
Edo Waks

Affiliations

Zhili Yang: Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland
Matthew Pelton: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Igor Fedin: Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Dmitri V. Talapin: Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Edo Waks: Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00198-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Colloidal nanocrystals are a promising material for easy-to-fabricate nanolasers, but suffer from high threshold powers. Here, the authors combine colloidal quantum wells with a photonic-crystal cavity into a stable, continuous-wave room-temperature nanolaser with a threshold below one microwatt

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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