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Rare-earth based lasing action in GaN semiconductor at the telecommunication wavelength of 1.5 micron has been demonstrated at room temperature. We have reported the stimulated emission under the above bandgap excitation from Er doped GaN…
We report the quantum efficiency of photoluminescence processes of Er optical centers as well as the thermal quenching mechanism in GaN epilayers prepared by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. High resolution infrared spectroscopy and…
Defect centers in GaN emerge as bright sources of single-photons which recently have been demonstrated to optically interface a localized spin. However, the structure and composition of these defects as well as their efficient excitation…
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) doped with erbium (Er), a material of interest for optoelectronics and quantum information, has been studied for decades. Yet the formation of Er luminescence centers in the semiconductor host and their properties…
This work demonstrates photon emission gain, i.e., emission of multiple photons per injected electron, through impact excitation in Er-doped silicon light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Conventional methods for exciting Er ions in silicon suffer…
We present a high-resolution photoluminescence study of Er-doped SiO2 sensitized with Si nanocrystals (Si NCs). Emission bands originating from recombination of excitons confined in Si NCs and of internal transitions within the 4f-electron…
Understanding the luminescence of GaN doped with erbium (Er) requires a detailed knowledge of the interaction between the rare-earth dopant and the nitride host, including intrinsic defects and other impurities that may be present in the…
The Gamma Factory (GF) initiative aims at the construction of a unique experimental tool exploiting resonant interaction of light with ultra-relativistic partially stripped ions (PSI) stored in circular accelerators at CERN. Resonant…
Electron-glasses can be readily driven far from equilibrium by a variety of means. Several mechanisms to excite the system and their relative merits are reviewed. In this study we focus on the process of exciting electron-glasses by…
Erbium (Er) doped GaN has been studied extensively for optoelectronic applications, yet its defect physics is still not well understood. In this work, we report a first-principles hybrid density functional study of the structure,…
The excitation efficiency and external luminescence quantum efficiency of trivalent Eu3+ ions doped into gallium nitride (GaN) was studied under optical and electrical excitation. For small pump fluences it was found that the excitation of…
Devices possessing the ability to sense both electrically and optically molecular targets are of fundamental and technological interest. Towards this end, it has been shown that covering the ends of gapped gold-nanorod-dimer nanoantennas…
Spin dependent recombination in GaAsN offers many interesting possibilities in the design of spintronic devices mostly due to its astounding capability to reach conduction band electron spin polarizations close to 100% at room temperature.…
Defect centers in wide-band-gap crystals attracted considerable attention due to the realisations of qubits, sensors, or single photon emitters at room temperature. The family of these centers is constantly growing, including well-known…
The role of charged centers in radiation-induced phenomena occurring in solid nitrogen irradiated with an electron beam was studied. The experiments were performed employing luminescence method and activation spectroscopy techniques -…
In this work, we analyze the relevance of excitation parameters on the emission from single-photon emitting defect centers in GaN. We investigate the absorption spectrum of different emitters by photoluminescence excitation technique at…
We report studies of the Yb$^{3+}$ site distribution in Er$^{3+}$ co-doped upconverting alkaline earth fluoride nanoparticles using high-resolution absorption measurements. Similar to bulk crystals, Yb$^{3+}$ single ion cubic (O$_h$), and…
Photoluminescence, thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) and EPR characteristics of the Ce3+ doped single crystals of multicomponent Y1Lu2GaxAl5-xO12 and Lu3GaxAl5-xO12 garnets with different Ga contents (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) excited in…
The upconversion process for the $Er^{3+}$ ion, when irradiated with IR photons at 980 nm, strongly depends upon the presence of the sensitizer $Yb^{3+}$ ions. There are many studies analyzing the properties of the upconversion process for…
Optical properties of GaAsN system with nitrogen concentrations in the range of 0.9-3.7% are studied by full-potential LAPW method in a supercell approach. The E+ transition is identified by calculating the imaginary part of the dielectric…