Polarization-based colour tuning of mixed colloidal quantum-dot thin films using direct patterning

Colloidal quantum-dots (cQDs) are finding increasingly widespread application in photonics and optoelectronics, providing high brightness and record-wide colour gamuts. However, the external quantum efficiencies in thin-film device architectures are still limited due to losses into waveguide modes a...

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Autores: De Leo, Eva, Rossinelli, Aurelio A., Marqués-Gallego, Patricia, Poulikakos, Lisa V., Norris, David J., Prins, Ferry
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/727520
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10486/727520
https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1nr07136j
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Colloidal quantum dots
nanocrystals
polarization
semiconductor quantum dots
thin film devices
Física
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Resumo:Colloidal quantum-dots (cQDs) are finding increasingly widespread application in photonics and optoelectronics, providing high brightness and record-wide colour gamuts. However, the external quantum efficiencies in thin-film device architectures are still limited due to losses into waveguide modes and different strategies are being explored to promote the outcoupling of emission. Here we use a template-stripping-based direct-patterning strategy to fabricate linear gratings at the surface of cQD thin films. The linear gratings enhance optical outcoupling through Bragg scattering, yielding bright emission with a strong degree of linear polarization. By patterning linear gratings with different periodicities and orientations onto a film of mixed-colour cQDs, we demonstrate polarization-based active colour tuning of the thinf ilm emission