Nanoimprinted Organic Semiconductor Laser Pumped by a Light-Emitting Diode
Abstract
An organic semiconductor laser, simply fabricated by UV-nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL), that is pumped with a pulsed InGaN LED is demonstrated. Molecular weight optimization of the polymer gain medium on a nanoimprinted polymer distributed feedback resonator enables the lowest reported UV-NIL laser threshold density of 770 W cm(-2), establishing the potential for scalable organic laser fabrication compatible with mass-produced LEDs.
Citation
Tsiminis , G , Wang , Y , Kanibolotsky , A L , Inigo , A R , Skabara , P J , Samuel , I D W & Turnbull , G A 2013 , ' Nanoimprinted Organic Semiconductor Laser Pumped by a Light-Emitting Diode ' Advanced Materials , vol. 25 , no. 20 , pp. 2826-2830 . DOI: 10.1002/adma.201205096
Publication
Advanced Materials
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0935-9648Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2013. WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheims. This is an open access article, available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201205096/abstract
Description
The authors acknowledge support for this work from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) HYPIX project (grant number EP/F059922/1 and EP/F05999X/1).Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.