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Carrier dynamics and photoexcited emission efficiency of ZnO:Zn phosphor powders

  • John V. Foreman
  • , Henry O. Everitt
  • , Jianqiu Yang
  • , Jie Liu

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Abstract

Nonstoichiometric ZnO with an excess of Zn atoms (ZnO:Zn) has a long history of use as a green/monochrome phosphor in electron-excited vacuum fluorescent and field emission displays. The advent of ultraviolet lasers and light emitting diodes presents the possibility of photoexciting the highly efficient, defect-related green emission in ZnO:Zn. Here we study experimentally the time-integrated quantum efficiency and the time-resolved photoluminescence decays of both near band edge and defect emissions in unannealed (ZnO) and annealed (ZnO:Zn) nanoparticles under femtosecond excitation. A comparison of results using one-photon excitation (excitation primarily near the particlés surface) versus two-photon excitation (uniform excitation throughout the particlés volume) elucidates how the quantum efficiencies depend on material properties, such as the spatial distributions of radiative and nonradiative defects, and on optical effects, such as reabsorption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUltrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XIII
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7214
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Keywords

  • Nanostructure
  • Phosphor
  • Photoluminescence
  • Powder
  • Quantum efficiency
  • Zinc oxide
  • ZnO

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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