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Vol. 12 (2020)

Electrical Excitation of Long-Range Surface Plasmons in PC/OLED Structure with Two Metal Nanolayers

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0369-7
Valery Konopsky
Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fizicheskaya, 5, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia 108840
Valery Prokhorov
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 31/4, Moscow, Russia 119071
Dmitry Lypenko
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 31/4, Moscow, Russia 119071
Artem Dmitriev
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 31/4, Moscow, Russia 119071
Elena Alieva
Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fizicheskaya, 5, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia 108840
Giovanni Dietler
Laboratoire de Physique de La Matière Vivante, IPHYS, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Sergey Sekatskii
Laboratoire de Physique de La Matière Vivante, IPHYS, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Corresponding Author: Valery Konopsky

konopsky@gmail.com

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 35

Abstract

A current-driven source of long-range surface plasmons (LRSPs) on a duplex metal nanolayer is reported. Electrical excitation of LRSPs was experimentally observed in a planar structure, where an organic light-emitting film was sandwiched between two metal nanolayers that served as electrodes. To achieve the LRSP propagation in these metal nanolayers at the interface with air, the light-emitting structure was bordered by a one-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) on the other side. The dispersion of the light emitted by such a hybrid PC/organic-light-emitting-diode structure (PC/OLED) comprising two thin metal electrodes was obtained, with a clearly identified LRSP resonance peak.


Highlights:


1 Long-range surface plasmons were first excited in a hybrid photonic-crystal/organic-light-emitting-diode microstructure containing two metal nanolayers.
2 These surface plasmons were excited without any external laser light, but by injecting current through the two metal nanolayers, which serve as thin metal electrodes for organic light-emitting microfilm between the layers.

Keywords

Surface plasmons Photonic crystal waveguides Light-emitting polymers
Konopsky, Valery, Valery Prokhorov, Dmitry Lypenko, Artem Dmitriev, Elena Alieva, Giovanni Dietler, and Sergey Sekatskii. 2020. “Electrical Excitation of Long-Range Surface Plasmons in PC/OLED Structure With Two Metal Nanolayers”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (January):35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0369-7.
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