LE BIAVAN , Nolwenn

The Terahertz domain (THz), situated between the visible and microwave energy range, turns out to be very promissing in terms of applications. However its application potential is not fully used because of the lack for compact sources able to cover a large part of its energy range. Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) are good candidates for this...

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Intersubband transitions in ZnO material systems are predicted to be promising candidates for infrared and terahertz (THz) optoelectronic devices due to their unusual material properties. In particular, the temperature performance of THz quantum cascade lasers is postulated to be significantly enhanced using ZnO material systems due to their...

We studied polarization-resolved photoluminescence originating from a ZnO-(Mg,Zn)O quantum well heterostucture embedded within an atom probe tip, i.e. a nanoscale needle-shaped sample with apex radius of several tens of nm, prepared by focused ion beam. The study was carried out within a photonic atom probe before the atom probe analysis of the...

Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a microscopy technique allowing for the 3D reconstruction of the chemical composition of a nanoscale needle-shaped sample with a precision close to the atomic scale. The photonic atom probe (PAP) is an evolution of APT featuring in situ and operando detection of the photoluminescence signal. The optical signatures...

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This paper reports on the demonstration of quantum cascade detectors (QCDs) based on ZnO/ ZnMgO quantum wells (QWs) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on an m-plane ZnO substrate. The TM-polarized intersubband absorption is peaked at a 3 lm wavelength. The sample has been processed in the form of square mesas with sizes ranging from 10_10 lm2 up...