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Nanostructured anti-reflection coatings for energy efficient LED lighting - DP150103317

Funding: 2015: $90,000
2016: $86,300
2017: $90,000

Project Member(s): Phillips, M., Ton-That, C., Ford, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2015

Summary: Light emitting diode devices play a critical role in emerging technologies with important current and future applications in medicine, health, horticulture, nanotechnology, biology and photonics. The basic laws of optics, however, only allow a very small amount of light to escape their surfaces due to very strong intrinsic internal reflection. This project aims to optimally couple light by design to nanostructured metal ¿ low loss zinc oxide surface coatings to significantly improve the light extraction efficiency. These breakthroughs in nanoscience and nanotechnology will lead to enhanced LED performance, efficiency and longevity.

Publications:

Fiedler, S, Lem, LOLC, Ton-That, C, Schleuning, M, Hoffmann, A & Phillips, MR 2020, 'Correlative Study of Enhanced Excitonic Emission in ZnO Coated with Al Nanoparticles using Electron and Laser Excitation', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 2553.
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Zakria, M, Huynh, TT, Ling, FCC, Su, SC, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2019, 'Highly Luminescent MgZnO/ZnO Multiple Quantum Wells for Photonics Devices', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 2574-2579.
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Huynh, TT, Lem, LLC, Kuramata, A, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2018, 'Kinetics of charge carrier recombination in βGa2O3 crystals', Physical Review Materials, vol. 2, no. 10.
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Rahman, MA, Scott, JA, Gentle, A, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2018, 'A facile method for bright, colour-tunable light-emitting diodes based on Ga-doped ZnO nanorods', Nanotechnology, vol. 29, no. 42, pp. 425707-425707.
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Zhu, L, Lockrey, M, Phillips, MR & Ton‐That, C 2018, 'Spatial Distribution of Defect Luminescence in ZnO Nanorods: An Investigation by Spectral Cathodoluminescence Imaging', physica status solidi (a), vol. 215, no. 19, pp. 1800389-1800389.
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Choi, S, Rogers, DJ, Sandana, EV, Bove, P, Teherani, FH, Nenstiel, C, Hoffmann, A, McClintock, R, Razeghi, M, Look, D, Gentle, A, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2017, 'Radiative recombination of confined electrons at the MgZnO/ZnO heterojunction interface', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
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Rahman, MA, Westerhausen, MT, Nenstiel, C, Choi, S, Hoffmann, A, Gentle, A, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2017, 'Charge state switching of Cu acceptors in ZnO nanorods', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 110, no. 12, pp. 121907-121907.
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Zhu, L, Khachadorian, S, Hoffmann, A, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2017, 'Chemical, vibrational and optical signatures of nitrogen in ZnO nanowires', Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, vol. 69, pp. 57-61.
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Zhu, L, Lem, LLC, Nguyen, T-P, Fair, K, Ali, S, Ford, MJ, Phillips, MR & Ton-That, C 2017, 'Indirect excitons in hydrogen-doped ZnO', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 115104-115104.
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Khachadorian, S, Gillen, R, Choi, S, Ton-That, C, Kliem, A, Maultzsch, J, Phillips, MR & Hoffmann, A 2015, 'Effects of annealing on optical and structural properties of zinc oxide nanocrystals', PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, vol. 252, no. 11, pp. 2620-2625.
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Keywords: light emitting materials, microcharacterisation, nanotechnology

FOR Codes: Nanoscale Characterisation, Nanomaterials, Composite and Hybrid Materials, Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences, Expanding Knowledge in Technology, EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE