Optoelectronic devices based upon the integration of semiconductor and gas-phase plasmas

Ni, Jimmy Hengkan

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Title

Optoelectronic devices based upon the integration of semiconductor and gas-phase plasmas

Author(s)

Ni, Jimmy Hengkan

Issue Date

2018-04-18

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Eden, James G.

Committee Member(s)

• Cunningham, Brian T.
• McCall, Bengamin J
• Ruzic, David N.

Department of Study

Electrical & Computer Eng

Discipline

Electrical & Computer Engr

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

Gas-phase plasma, bipolar junction transistor, optoelectronic device

Abstract

Several optoelectronic devices based on interfacing low-temperature gas-phase plasma with a semiconductor or other solid surface have been designed, fabricated and characterized. For the first time, a microplasma-based light-emitting optoelectronic device has been demonstrated on the wafer-scale. Known as the plasma bipolar junction transistor (PBJT), this device is an npn transistor in which the collector is replaced with a microplasma. Using this device as a platform, the nonlinearity of microplasma light emission was investigated experimentally and theoretically. A strong nonlinearity in the plasma optical emission, observed when the emitter-base driving voltage has a frequency near 8 kHz, is attributed to ion acoustic wave oscillations. Accordingly, a new type of device, the plasma mixer/modulator (PMM), was proposed and demonstrated. Because the impact of microplasma propagation in a channel is fundamental to the devices central to this dissertation, a generalized microchannel structure was also fabricated and characterized. Coupling between two microcavity plasmas in a symmetric, microfabricated dielectric barrier structure has been observed by injecting charge from one of the plasmas into an intervening microchannel. Periodic modulation of the electric field strength in the injector (or electron “donor”) cavity has the effect of deforming the acceptor microplasma which exhibits two distinct and stable spatiotemporal modes. Finally, a multichannel array was fabricated onto a microscale chip for the purpose of exploring the potential of generating amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from the array. With the help of micropatterning and fabrication techniques of polymeric optical waveguide materials, an array of stable glow discharges was generated along the waveguides. The two most intense features of the emission spectra are the 5p5(2P°3/2)6p 2[3/2]2 → 5p5(2P°3/2)6s 2[3/2]°2 and 5p5(2P°3/2)6p 2[1/2]0 → 5p5(2P°3/2)6s 2[3/2]°1 transitions of Xe which lie at 823 nm and 828 nm, respectively. Increasing the E/N in the Ar/Xe microplasma yielded a non-statistical ratio of the 823 and 828 nm emission line intensities, suggesting the presence of gain in the channels.

Graduation Semester

2018-05

Type of Resource

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