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Efficient anisotropic polariton lasing using molecular conformation and orientation in organic microcavities

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Date
18/09/2022
Author
Le Roux, Florian
Mischok, Andreas
Bradley, Donal D. C.
Gather, Malte Christian
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
640012
Keywords
Molecular conformation and orientation
Polariton lasing
Exciton-polaritons
Conjugated polymer microcavities
Organic semiconductors
Liquid crystalline conjugated polymers
QC Physics
DAS
MCC
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Abstract
Organic exciton-photon polariton lasers are promising candidates for efficient generation of coherent light at room temperature. While their thresholds are now comparable with conventional organic photon lasers, tuning of molecular conformation and orientation as a means to control fundamental properties of their emission and further enhance performance remains largely unexplored. Here, we first report a two-fold reduction in the threshold of a microcavity polariton laser based on an active layer of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (PFO) when 15% β-phase conformation is introduced. We then take advantage of the liquid crystalline properties of PFO and use a thin photoalignment layer to induce nematic alignment of the polymer chains. The resulting transition dipole moment orientation increases the Rabi energy, bringing the system into the ultra-strong coupling regime and facilitating anisotropic polariton lasing with an eight-fold reduction in absorbed threshold, down to 1.14 pJ/0.36 μJcm-2 for the direction parallel to the orientation, with no emission along the orthogonal direction. This represents the first demonstration of anisotropic polariton lasing in conjugated polymer microcavities and a lower threshold than current organic vertical cavity surface-emitting photon and polariton lasers. Dipole orientation offers new opportunities for switchable, more efficient polaritonic devices and observation of fundamental effects at low polariton numbers.
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Le Roux , F , Mischok , A , Bradley , D D C & Gather , M C 2022 , ' Efficient anisotropic polariton lasing using molecular conformation and orientation in organic microcavities ' , Advanced Functional Materials , vol. Early View , 202209241 . https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202209241
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Advanced Functional Materials
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202209241
ISSN
1616-301X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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F.L.R acknowledges funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Humboldt Fellowship. A.M. acknowledges funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101023743 (PolDev). D.D.C.B. thanks the Sumitomo Chemical Company and DIC Corporation for provision of PFO and SD1, respectively. D.D.C.B. further acknowledges support from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) and JITRI-Oxford IMPACT Institute (R57149/CN001). This research was financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Professorship to M.C.G.) and by the European Research Council under the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (FP/2014-2020)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 640012 (ABLASE).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26102

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