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Hilmi Volkan Demir

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Widely Tunable, Etch-free Multi-dielectric Fano Metasurfaces in the Visible

Fano resonances, characterized by a unique, sharp, and asymmetric spectral line shape arising from the interference between a narrowband discrete resonant state and a broadband continuum state, provide rich opportunities to control and manipulate light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Here, we propose and demonstrate a nanophotonic architecture that integrates a multi-layered dielectric cavity into a one-dimensional grating to achieve an outstanding range of Fano resonance tunability by design, spanning 194 nm across the visible (from 500 to 694 nm), even with an ultra-thin layer of cavity (80 nm thick), offering the potential of highly compact photonic devices. The precise tailoring of the Fano spectral position through the adjustment of the cavity's structural parameters enables strongly localized field accumulation (at a maximum of 26 folds) within the cavity region. Additionally, the proposed architecture allows for bright and saturated structural colors in the visible, promising a route toward advanced digital display and printing technologies. Importantly, the experimental performance achieved with a simple, etch-free fabrication process results in a significant reduction in fabrication complexity and process-induced optical degradation. Our work showcases a robust platform for possible applications in Fano resonance-based low-loss nanolasers, on-chip photonic devices, optical communication components, and next-generation quantum technologies in the visible range.

physics.optics↗

Visible Dielectric Metastructure for Generating Ultranarrow-band Perfect Absorption and Bound States in the Continuum

The ability to generate ultranarrow-band perfect absorption and bound states in the continuum (BICs) in the visible spectrum is highly useful and desired for many advanced optical and nanophotonic applications. However, achieving perfect absorption and BICs with a high quality-factor in the visible region remains challenging due to the material background absorption, radiative losses, and fabrication constraints. Here, we propose and demonstrate a dielectric nanophotonic platform that simultaneously achieves perfect absorption (99.0% at 603 nm) and multiple symmetry-protected BICs in the visible by integrating a dielectric metasurface with a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The coupling between the metasurface's localized dielectric resonances and the DBR-assisted photonic mode suppresses radiative leakage and enables ultranarrow-band resonances (full-width at half-maximum ~ 0.65 nm) with strong electromagnetic field (|E|) enhancement (up to 16.4 folds) within the DBR stopband. In addition, the metasurface's asymmetric design enables a magnetic multipole-assisted quasi-BIC resonance with polarization-dependent mode degeneracies, and the periodic structure enables Mie resonance-assisted multiple BICs. Furthermore, the tunability of design parameters provides additional degrees of freedom to control the resonances and their spectral positions. The coexistence of perfect narrowband absorption and BICs within a compact dielectric nanophotonic platform in the visible establishes a promising route toward next-generation low-loss, high-performance meta-optical devices and technologies.

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Bandedge-state-limited single-photon emission from volumetric quantum design of 2D colloidal quantum wells

Present-day solution-processable single-photon sources are dominated by three-dimensionally confined colloidal quantum dot emitters, yet their particle-to-particle variation in single-exciton properties limits reproducibility and scalability. Here, to avoid such heterogeneity, we demonstrate reliable room-temperature single-photon emission from atomically flat two-dimensional (2D) colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) with inherently uniform one-dimensional quantum confinement, despite their long-standing limitations of efficient multiexciton emission and pronounced exciton-surface susceptibility. We resolve these challenges through volumetric quantum design (VQD) of CQWs, yielding a highly localized, single bandedge state. This design laterally confines the bandedge excitonic domain within the exciton coherent area and vertically decouples it from surface states via a thick, strain-relieved quantum-barrier shell that preserves strong confinement, overcoming the daunting thickness-confinement trade-off in 2D CQWs. Statistical single-particle spectroscopy reveals that VQD-CQWs deliver near-blinking-free (on-time >99.5%) and fluence-insensitive antibunching (g(2)(0): 0.041), protected by a bandedge-state-filling bottleneck, together with linear polarization of up to 73% under cavity-free conditions, originating from synergistic transition-dipole and electric-field anisotropies. These advances establish 2D CQWs as a viable, homogenous and scalable platform for quantum technologies.

physics.app-ph↗

Unveiling the local elemental arrangements across the interfaces inside CdSe/Cd1-xZnxS core-shell and CdSe/CdS/ Cd1-xZnxS core-crown-shell quantum wells

We report on a systematic study of the Cd, Zn, Se, and S elemental distributions across the interfaces in CdSe/Cd1-xZnxS core-shell and CdSe/CdS/Cd1-xZnxS core-crown-shell quantum wells with the CdSe core thickness ranging from 3.5 to 5.5 ML. By processing the XAS data, we observe that the Cd-Se bonds dominate at the CdSe/Cd1-xZnxS core-shell interface of structures with the 3.5 ML cores, while the Cd-Se bonds were more abundant in the cases of the 4.5 and 5.5 ML cores. The complementary information about prevailing bonds were extracted for other constituting elements, thus, describing the distribution of the elements at the core-shell interface of CdSe-based NPLs. The naked CdSe cores are covered with an organic shell via bridging oxygen atoms. Also, we address the issue of stability of such core-shell systems over the time. We demonstrate that after a half year of aging of the commercial-ready 4.5 ML CdSe/CdxZn1-xS NPLs, the Cd-Se bonds become more evident due to the partial degradation of the Cd-S bonds. This is the first experimental assessment of prevailing interatomic bonds at the core-shell interface in the CdSe-based NPLs of incremental structural heterogeneity, providing factual evidences about the elemental arrangement inside the core-crown-shell NPLs and the growth path of crowns and shells.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

Bright-Dark Exciton Interplay Evidenced by Spin Polarization in CdSe/CdMnS Nanoplatelets

Diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) colloidal nanocrystals demonstrate remarkable magneto-optical properties. However, the behavior of circular polarization of their emission in high magnetic fields remains unclear. We measure magneto-optical properties of colloidal CdSe/CdMnS nanoplatelets in high magnetic fields up to 30 T and at cryogenic temperatures. The degree of circular polarization of photoluminescence demonstrates non-monotonous behavior in a magnetic field. In low magnetic fields, the polarization degree is positive, due to an exchange interaction of excitons with localized spins of magnetic Mn ions. The exchange interaction is strong enough to overcome the intrinsic Zeeman splitting, which provides negatively polarized emission in nonmagnetic CdSe/CdS nanoplatelets. After reaching a maximum the polarization degree starts to decrease and reverses the sign to negative in high magnetic fields. The critical magnetic field, in which the sign is reversed, increases when temperature is elevated. We develop a model, which explains this behavior by an interplay of bright and dark exciton recombination.

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Time-Transient Wireless RF Sensor with Differentiative Detecting Capability for Target Ionic Solution of Water and Dielectric Objects Introduced into Water

A novel wireless microstrip-based RF sensor designed for detecting changes in ionic content of water and the addition of solid contaminant objects is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor can be installed on the exterior wall of dielectric containers and customized according to the material of the container to enable wireless sensing. Its operation within the lower microwave frequency range (670-730 MHz) serves to minimize signal attenuation in water and streamlines circuitry design. The most significant feature of this sensor is its unique design, rendering it impervious to its surrounding environment. This not only shields it from environmental noise but also maximizes its sensitivity by efficiently utilizing incoming power for sensing purposes. The sensor exhibits remarkable sensitivity, capable of detecting solute concentrations as low as 0.003125 M in water. It can also detect the insertion of foreign solid objects into the container from the exterior wirelessly and distinguish them from liquids being added. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, the sensor in this study was optimized for a porcelain wall of 10-12 mm thickness. The sensor's small size and the materials used for its fabrication make it adaptable to a wide range of applications in industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and bathroom fixtures. The aforementioned properties position the sensor as an ideal choice for various smart bathroom applications, where accurate and reliable water use monitoring is essential for efficient water conservation.

eess.SP↗

Dual-resonance nanostructures for colour down-conversion of colloidal quantum emitters

Linear colour conversion is a process where an emitter absorbs a photon and then emits another photon with either higher or lower energy, corresponding to up- or down conversion, respectively. In this regard, the presence of a volumetric cavity plays a crucial role in enhancing absorption and photoluminescence (PL), as it allows for large volumes of interaction between the exciting photons and the emissive materials, maximising the colour conversion efficiency. Here, we present a dual resonance nanostructure made of a titanium dioxide (TiO2) subwavelength grating to enhance the colour down-conversion efficiency of green light at ~530 nm emitted by gradient alloyed CdxZn1-xSeyS1-y colloidal quantum dots (QDs) when excited with a blue light at ~460 nm. A large mode volume can be created within the QD layer by the hybridisation of the grating resonances and waveguide modes. This allows increasing mode overlap between the resonances and the QDs, resulting in large absorption and tailored emission enhancements. Particularly, we achieved polarized light emission with maximum photoluminescence enhancement of ~140 times at a specific angular direction, and a total enhancement of ~34 times within 0.55 numerical aperture (NA) of the collecting objective. The enhancement encompasses absorption enhancement, Purcell enhancement and directionality enhancement (i.e., outcoupling). We achieved total absorption of 35% for green QDs with a remarkably thin colour conversion layer of ~ 400 nm (inclusive of the TiO2 layer). This work provides a guideline for designing large-volume cavities for practical application in absorption/fluorescence enhancement, such as down colour conversion in microLED displays, detectors or photovoltaics.

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Photoinduced transition from quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper to 3D halide perovskites for optical writing multicolor and light-erasable images

Development of advanced optical data storage, information encryption, and security labeling technologies requires low-cost materials exhibiting local, pronounced, and diverse modification of their structure-dependent optical properties under external excitation. Herein, for these purposes, we propose and develop a novel platform relying on layered lead halide Ruddlesden-Popper (quasi-2D) phases that undergo a light-induced transition towards bulk (3D) halide perovskite and employ this phenomenon for the direct optical writing of various multicolor patterns. This transition causes the weakening of quantum confinement, and hence the bandgap reduction in these photoluminescent thin films. To significantly extend the color gamut of evolving photoluminescence, we make use of mixed-halide compositions exhibiting photoinduced halide segregation. As a result, the emission wavelength of the resulting films can be widely tuned across the entire 450-600 nm range depending on the illumination conditions. We show that pulsed near-infrared femtosecond laser irradiation provides high-resolution direct writing, whereas continuous-wave ultraviolet exposure is suitable for fast recording on larger scales. The luminescent micro- and macro-scale images created on such quasi-2D perovskite films can be erased during the visualization process, by which the persistence of these images to UV light exposure can be controlled and increased further with the increasing number of octahedral layers used in the perovskite stacks. This makes the proposed writing/erasing perovskite-based platform suitable for the manufacturing of both inexpensive optical data storage devices and light-erasable security labels.

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Near-Unity Emitting, Widely Tailorable and Stable Exciton Concentrators Built from Doubly Gradient 2D Semiconductor Nanoplatelets

The strength of electrostatic interactions (EI) between electrons and holes within semiconductor nanocrystals profoundly impact the performance of their optoelectronic systems, and different optoelectronic devices demand distinct EI strength of the active medium. However, achieving a broad range, fine-tuning of the EI strength for specific optoelectronic applications is a daunting challenge, especially in quasi 2-dimensional core-shell semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs), as the epitaxial growth of the inorganic shell along the direction of the thickness that solely contributes to the quantum confined effect significantly undermines the strength of the EI. Herein we propose and demonstrate a novel doubly-gradient (DG) core-shell architecture of semiconductor NPLs for on-demand tailoring of the EI strength by controlling the localized exciton concentration via in-plane architectural modulation, demonstrated by a wide tuning of radiative recombination rate and exciton binding energy. Moreover, these exciton-concentration-engineered DG NPLs also exhibit a near-unity quantum yield, remarkable thermal and photo stability, as well as considerably suppressed self-absorption. As proof-of-concept demonstrations, highly efficient color converters and high-performance light-emitting diodes (external quantum efficiency: 16.9%, maximum luminance: 43,000 cd/m2) have been achieved based on the DG NPLs. This work thus opens up new avenues for developing high-performance colloidal optoelectronic device applications.

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Hybrid Dielectric-Plasmonic Nanoantenna with Multiresonances for Subwavelength Photon Sources

The enhancement of the photoluminescence of quantum dots induced by an optical nanoantenna has been studied considerably, but there is still significant interest in optimizing and miniaturizing such structures, especially when accompanied by an experimental demonstration. Most of the realizations use plasmonic platforms, and some also use all-dielectric nanoantennas, but hybrid dielectric-plasmonic (subwavelength) nanostructures have been very little explored. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate single subwavelength hybrid dielectric-plasmonic optical nanoantennas coupled to localized quantum dot emitters that constitute efficient and bright unidirectional photon sources under optical pumping. To achieve this, we devised a silicon nanoring sitting on a gold mirror with a 10 nm gap in-between, where an assembly of colloidal quantum dots is embedded. Such a structure supports both (radiative) antenna mode and (nonradiative) gap mode resonances, which we exploit for the dual purpose of out-coupling the light emitted by the quantum dots into the far-field with out-of-plane directivity, and for enhancing the excitation of the dots by the optical pump. Moreover, almost independent control of the resonance spectral positions can be achieved by simple tuning of geometrical parameters such as the ring inner and outer diameters, allowing us to conveniently adjust these resonances with respect to the quantum dots emission and absorption wavelengths. Using the proposed architecture, we obtain experimentally average fluorescence enhancement factors up to $654\times$ folds mainly due to high radiative efficiencies, and associated with a directional emission of the photoluminescence into a cone of $\pm 17\degree$ in the direction normal to the sample plane. We believe the solution presented here to be viable and relevant for the next generation of light-emitting devices.

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Plasmon-Enhanced Photoresponse of a Single Silver Nanowire and its Networked Devices

Photo-bolometric effect is critically important in optoelectronic structures and devices employing metallic electrodes with nanoscale features due to heating caused by the plasmonic field enhancement. One peculiar case is individual silver nanowires (Ag NWs) and their networks. Ag NW-networks exhibit excellent thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties, providing a simple yet reliable alternative to common flexible transparent electrode materials used in optoelectronic devices. To date there have been no reports on the photoresponse of Ag NWs. In this work, we show that a single Ag NW and a network of such Ag NWs possess a significant, intrinsic photoresponse thanks to the photo-bolometric effect, as directly observed and measured using scanning photocurrent microscopy. Surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) created at the contact metals or plasmons created at the nanowire-metal structures cause heating at the junctions where a plasmonic field enhancement is possible. The local heating of the Ag NWs results in negative photoconductance due to the bolometric effect. Here an open-circuit response due to the plasmon-enhanced Seebeck effect was recorded at the NW-metal contact junctions. The SPP-assisted bolometric effect is found to be further enhanced by decorating the Ag NWs with Ag nanoparticles. These observations are relevant to the use of metallic nanowires in plasmonic applications in particular and in optoelectronics in general. Our findings may pave the path for plasmonics enabled sensing without a spectroscopic detection.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

Highly-directional, highly-efficient solution-processed light-emitting diodes of all-face-down oriented colloidal quantum wells

Semiconductor colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) make an exciting quasi-2D class of nanocrystals thanks to their unique properties including their highly anisotropic optical transition dipole moment (TDM). Thus, employing a film of CQWs with face-down orientation as an emissive layer (EML) in an electroluminescent device is expected to substantially boost photon outcoupling efficiency. Here, we show all-solution-processed colloidal quantum well light-emitting diodes (CQW-LEDs) using a single all-face-down oriented self-assembled monolayer (SAM) film of CQWs that enables a high level of in-plane (IP) TDMs of 92%. This SAM film significantly enhances the outcoupling efficiency from 22% (of standard randomly-oriented emitters) to 34% (of face-down oriented emitters) and charge injection efficiency. This SAM-CQW-LED architecture enables a record high level of external quantum efficiency of 18.1% for the solution-processed type of CQW-LEDs, putting their efficiency performance on par with the hybrid organic-inorganic evaporation-based CQW-LEDs and all other best solution-processed LEDs. In addition, this architecture provides a high maximum brightness of 19,800 cd/m2 with a long operational lifetime of 247 h at 100 cd/m2 along with saturated deep-red emission (651 nm). These findings indicate the effectiveness of oriented self-assembly of CQWs as electrically-driven emissive layers in improving outcoupling and external quantum efficiencies in the CQW-LEDs.

physics.optics↗

'Meta-atomless' architecture based on an irregular continuous fabric of coupling-tuned identical nanopillars enables highly efficient and achromatic metasurfaces

Metasurfaces are subwavelength-thick constructs, consisting of discrete meta-atoms, providing discretized levels of phase accumulation that collectively approximate a designed optical functionality. The meta-atoms utilizing geometric phase with polarization-converting structures produced encouraging implementations of optical components including metalenses. However, to date, a pending and fundamental problem of this approach has been the low device efficiency that such resulting components suffer, an unwanted side effect of large lattice constants used for preventing inter-coupling of their meta-atoms. Although the use of near-field coupling for tuning electromagnetic resonances found its use in constructing efficient narrow-band designs, such structures fell short of providing high efficiency over a broad spectrum. Here, we propose and show that tightly packed fabric of identical dielectric nanopillar waveguides with continuously-tuned inter-coupling distances make excellent and complete achromatic metasurface elements. This architecture enables the scatterers to interact with the incoming wave extremely efficiently. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we showed an achromatic cylindrical metalens, constructed from strongly coupled dielectric nanopillars of a single geometry as continuously-set phase elements in a 'meta-atomless' fashion, working in the entirety of 400-700 nm band. This metalens achieves over 85 percent focusing efficiency across this whole spectral range. To combat polarization sensitivity, we used hexagonally stacked nanopillars to build up a polarization-independent scatterer library. Finally, a circular metalens with polarization-independent operation and achromatic focusing was obtained. This is a paradigm shift in making an achromatic metasurface architecture by wovening identical nanopillars coupled into an irregular lattice constructed via careful tuning.

physics.optics↗

Ultrahigh Green and Red Optical Gain Cross-sections from Solutions of Colloidal Quantum Well Heterostructures

Optical gain in solution, which provides high photostability as a result of continuous regeneration of the gain medium, is extremely attractive for optoelectronic applications. Here, we propose and demonstrate amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in solution with ultralow thresholds of 30 mikroJ/cm2 in red and of 44 mikroJ/cm2 in green from engineered colloidal quantum well (CQW) heterostructures. For this purpose, CdSe/CdS core/crown CQWs, designed to hit the green region, and CdSe/CdS/CdxZn1-xS core/crown/gradient-alloyed shell CQWs, further tuned to reach the red region by shell alloying, were employed to achieve high-performance ASE in the visible. The net modal gain of these CQWs reaches 530 cm-1 for the green and 201 cm-1 for the red, two orders of magnitude larger than those of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) in solution owing to intrinsically larger gain cross-sections of these CQWs. To explain the root cause for ultrahigh gain coefficient in solution, we show that for the first time that the gain cross-sections of these CQWs is 3.3x10-14 cm2 in the green and 1.3x10-14 cm2 in the red which are two orders magnitude larger compared to those of CQDs. These findings confirm the extraordinary prospects of these solution-processed CQWs as solution-based optical gain media in lasing applications.

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Single-mode lasing from a single 7 nm thick monolayer of colloidal quantum wells in a monolithic microcavity

In this work, we report the first account of monolithically-fabricated vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) of densely-packed, orientation-controlled, atomically flat colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) using a self-assembly method and demonstrate single-mode lasing from a record thin colloidal gain medium with a film thickness of 7 nm under femtosecond optical excitation. We used specially engineered CQWs to demonstrate these hybrid CQW-VCSELs consisting of only a few layers to a single monolayer of CQWs and achieved the lasing from these thin gain media by thoroughly modeling and implementing a vertical cavity consisting of distributed Bragg reflectors with an additional dielectric layer for mode tuning. Accurate spectral and spatial alignment of the cavity mode with the CQW films was secured with the help of full electromagnetic computations. While overcoming the long-pending problem of limited electrical conductivity in thicker colloidal films, such ultra-thin colloidal gain media can help enabling fully electrically-driven colloidal lasers.

physics.optics↗

Self-Resonant u-Lasers of Colloidal Quantum Wells Constructed by Direct Deep Patterning

Here, the first account of self-resonant fully-colloidal u-lasers made from colloidal quantum well (CQW) solution is reported. A deep patterning technique is developed to fabricate well-defined high aspect-ratio on-chip CQW resonators made of grating waveguides and in-plane reflectors. CQWs of the patterned layers are closed-packed with sharp edges and residual-free lifted-off surfaces. Additionally, the method is successfully applied to various nanoparticles including colloidal quantum dots and metal nanoparticles. It is observed that the patterning process does not affect the nanocrystals (NCs) immobilized in the attained patterns and different physical and chemical properties of the NCs remain pristine. Thanks to capability of the proposed patterning method, patterns of NCs with sub-wavelength lateral feature size and micron-scale height are fabricated in the aspect ratios of 1:15 (<100 nm lateral patterned features to >1.5 μm film thickness). The fabricated waveguide-coupled laser, enabling tight optical confinement, assures in-plane lasing. The spectral characteristics of the designed CQW resonator structure are well supported with a numerical model of full electromagnetic solutions. Such directly deep-patterned self-resonant u-lasers of CQWs hold great promise for on-chip integration to photonic circuits.

physics.app-ph↗

Orientation-Controlled Construction of Superstructures of Atomically-Flat Nanocrystals: Pushing the Limits of Ultra-Thin Colloidal Gain Media

We propose and demonstrate a method for the construction of highly uniform, multilayered, orientation-controlled superstructures of CdSe/CdZnS core/shell colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs) using bi-phase liquid interface. These atomically-flat nanocrystals are sequentially deposited, all face-down onto a solid substrate, into slabs having monolayer-precise thickness and excellent homogeneity over several tens of cm2 areas. Owing to the near-unity surface coverage and film uniformity of this deposition technique, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is observed from an uncharacteristically thin colloidal film having only 6 layers of NPLs, which corresponds to a mere 42 nm thickness. Furthermore, systematic studies of optical gain properties of these NPL superstructures constructed having precise numbers of NPL layers tuned from 6 to 15 revealed the reduction in the gain threshold with the increasing number of NPL monolayers, along with a continuous spectral shift in the position of the ASE peak (by ~18 nm). These observations can be well explained by the variation of the optical field confinement factor with the NPL waveguide thickness and propagation wavelength. This work demonstrates the possibility of fabricating thickness-tunable, large-area three-dimensional superstructures made of NPL building blocks, which can be additively constructed one monolayer at a time. The proposed technique can also be extended to build hybrid NPL films of mixed orientations and allow for precise large-area device engineering.

physics.app-ph↗

Lasing action in single subwavelength particles supporting supercavity modes

On-chip light sources are critical for the realization of fully integrated photonic circuitry. So far, semiconductor miniaturized lasers have been mainly limited to sizes on the order of a few microns. Further reduction of sizes is challenging fundamentally due to the associated radiative losses. While using plasmonic metals helps to reduce radiative losses and sizes, they also introduce Ohmic losses hindering real improvements. In this work, we show that, making use of quasi-bound states in the continuum, or supercavity modes, we circumvent these fundamental issues and realize the smallest purely semiconductor nanolaser thus far. Here, the nanolaser structure is based on a single semiconductor nanocylinder that intentionally takes advantage of the destructive interference between two supported optical modes, namely Fabry-Perot and Mie modes, to obtain a significant enhancement in the quality factor of the cavity. We experimentally demonstrate the concept and obtain optically pumped lasing action using GaAs at cryogenic temperatures. The optimal nanocylinder size is as small as 500 nm in diameter and only 330 nm in height with a lasing wavelength around 825 nm, corresponding to a size-to-wavelength ratio around 0.6. The obtained results pave the way for the development of smaller on-chip light sources free of Ohmic losses, which may find applications in the future photonic circuits.

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