Chen Yang, Feng Jiangang, Huang Yuqing, Chen Weijin, Su Rui, Ghosh Sanjib, Hou Yi, Xiong Qihua, Qiu Cheng-Wei
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China.
Nat Mater. 2023 Sep;22(9):1065-1070. doi: 10.1038/s41563-023-01531-2. Epub 2023 Apr 20.
Circularly polarized light sources with free-space directional emission play a key role in chiroptics, spintronics, valleytronics and asymmetric photocatalysis. However, conventional approaches fail to simultaneously realize pure circular polarization, high directionality and large emission angles in a compact emitter. Metal-halide perovskite semiconductors are promising light emitters, but the absence of an intrinsic spin-locking mechanism results in poor emission chirality. Further, device integration has undermined the efficiency and directionality of perovskite chiral emitters. Here we realize compact spin-valley-locked perovskite emitting metasurfaces where spin-dependent geometric phases are imparted into bound states in the continuum via Brillouin zone folding, and thus, photons with different spins are selectively addressed to opposite valleys. Employing this approach, chiral purity of 0.91 and emission angle of 41.0° are simultaneously achieved, with a beam divergence angle of 1.6°. With this approach, we envisage the realization of chiral light-emitting diodes, as well as the on-chip generation of entangled photon pairs.
具有自由空间定向发射的圆偏振光源在旋光光学、自旋电子学、谷电子学和不对称光催化中起着关键作用。然而,传统方法无法在紧凑的发射器中同时实现纯圆偏振、高方向性和大发射角。金属卤化物钙钛矿半导体是很有前途的发光体,但缺乏内在的自旋锁定机制导致发射手性较差。此外,器件集成降低了钙钛矿手性发射器的效率和方向性。在这里,我们实现了紧凑的自旋谷锁定钙钛矿发射超表面,其中通过布里渊区折叠将自旋相关的几何相位赋予连续统中的束缚态,因此,具有不同自旋的光子被选择性地引导到相反的谷中。采用这种方法,同时实现了0.91的手性纯度和41.0°的发射角,光束发散角为1.6°。通过这种方法,我们设想实现手性发光二极管,以及片上纠缠光子对的产生。