Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
Adv Mater. 2017 Nov;29(43). doi: 10.1002/adma.201703549. Epub 2017 Oct 9.
A stretchable, flexible, and bendable random laser system capable of lasing in a wide range of spectrum will have many potential applications in next- generation technologies, such as visible-spectrum communication, superbright solid-state lighting, biomedical studies, fluorescence, etc. However, producing an appropriate cavity for such a wide spectral range remains a challenge owing to the rigidity of the resonator for the generation of coherent loops. 2D materials with wrinkled structures exhibit superior advantages of high stretchability and a suitable matrix for photon trapping in between the hill and valley geometries compared to their flat counterparts. Here, the intriguing functionalities of wrinkled reduced graphene oxide, single-layer graphene, and few-layer hexagonal boron nitride, respectively, are utilized to design highly stretchable and wearable random laser devices with ultralow threshold. Using methyl-ammonium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals (PNC) to illustrate the working principle, the lasing threshold is found to be ≈10 µJ cm , about two times less than the lowest value ever reported. In addition to PNC, it is demonstrated that the output lasing wavelength can be tuned using different active materials such as semiconductor quantum dots. Thus, this study is very useful for the future development of high-performance wearable optoelectronic devices.
一种可伸缩、灵活和可弯曲的随机激光系统,能够在很宽的光谱范围内产生激光,将在下一代技术中有许多潜在的应用,如可见光谱通信、超亮固态照明、生物医学研究、荧光等。然而,由于产生相干环路的谐振器的刚性,为如此宽的光谱范围产生适当的腔仍然是一个挑战。与平面相比,具有褶皱结构的二维材料在光子捕获方面具有优越的高拉伸性和合适的基质优势,存在于山和谷的几何形状之间。在这里,分别利用褶皱还原氧化石墨烯、单层石墨烯和少层六方氮化硼的有趣功能,设计了具有超低阈值的高拉伸和可穿戴随机激光器件。使用甲脒碘化铅钙钛矿纳米晶体(PNC)来说明工作原理,发现激光阈值约为 10µJ cm ,比以往报道的最低值低约两倍。除了 PNC,还证明可以使用不同的活性材料(如半导体量子点)来调谐输出激光波长。因此,这项研究对于高性能可穿戴光电设备的未来发展非常有用。