Electrically driven deep ultraviolet MgZnO lasers at room temperature.

Semiconductor lasers in the deep ultraviolet (UV) range have numerous potential applications ranging from water purification and medical diagnosis to high-density data storage and flexible displays. Nevertheless, very little success was achieved in the realization of electrically driven deep UV semiconductor lasers to date. In this paper, we report the fabrication and characterization of deep UV MgZnO semiconductor lasers.

An Sb-doped p-type ZnO nanowire based random laser diode.

An electrically pumped Sb-doped ZnO nanowire/Ga-doped ZnO p-n homojunction random laser is demonstrated. Catalyst-free Sb-doped ZnO nanowires were grown on a Ga-doped ZnO thin film on a Si substrate by chemical vapor deposition. The morphology of the as-grown titled nanowires was observed by scanning electron microscopy.

Electrically pumped random lasing based on an Au-ZnO nanowire Schottky junction.

Electrically pumped random lasing based on an Au-ZnO nanowire Schottky junction diode is demonstrated. The device exhibits typical Schottky diode current-voltage characteristics with a turn-on voltage of 0.7 V.

Realization of Cu-Doped p-Type ZnO Thin Films by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Cu-doped p-type ZnO films are grown on c-sapphire substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Photoluminescence (PL) experiments reveal a shallow acceptor state at 0.15 eV above the valence band edge.