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Low Threshold Organic Semiconductor Lasers

Hybrid Optoelectronics and Applications as Explosive Sensors

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Yue Wang

    1. School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of St Andrews, UK
  • Combines the development of compact organic lasers and their application as explosive vapour sensors
  • Pioneering results on nanoimprinted organic lasers for very low threshold operation
  • Includes a demonstration of organic lasers powered by a single nitride LED
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 1-8

  3. Theory of Organic Semiconductor Lasers

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 9-32

  4. Experimental Methods

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 33-57

  5. Low-Threshold and Broadly Tuneable Organic Lasers Based on Star-Shaped Oligofluorene Truxenes

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 59-77

  6. Commercial LED Pumped Organic Semiconductor Lasers

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 79-100

  7. Low Threshold Nanoimprinted Organic Lasers Integration with Micro-LED Arrays

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 101-121

  8. Polymer with Intrinsic Microporosity Used as Explosive Vapour Sensors

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 123-138

  9. Towards Ultra-Portable Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Explosives Sensing Devices

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 139-153

  10. Conclusions and Perspectives

    • Yue Wang
    Pages 155-159

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 161-164
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This thesis focuses on two areas - the development of miniature plastic lasers that can be powered by LEDs, and the application of these lasers as highly sensitive sensors for vapours of nitroaromatic explosives (e.g. TNT). Polymer lasers are extremely compact visible lasers; the research described in the thesis is groundbreaking, driving forward the technology and physical understanding to allow these lasers to be routinely pumped by a single high-power LED. A notable advance in the work is the demonstration of nanoimprinted polymer lasers, which exhibit the world's lowest pump threshold densities by two orders of magnitude. The thesis also advances the application of these compact, novel lasers as highly sensitive detectors of explosive vapours, demonstrating that rapid detection can be achieved when microporous polymers are used. This work also demonstrates a prototype CMOS-based microsystem sensor for explosive vapours, exploiting a new detection approach.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Yue Wang

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