Electrically Driven Polariton Light Emitting Devices

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to highlight the recent progress in the rapidly developing field of electrically driven polariton devices. The unprecedented potential of polariton-based devices owes its origin mainly to the bosonic property of polaritons to condense in the same final state, thus requiring no population inversion to achieve lasing. Consequently, it is widely believed that the threshold of a polariton laser is at least two orders of magnitude lower than that of a conventional semiconductor photon laser operating in the weak-coupling regime [C. Weisbuch, M. Nishioka, A. Ishikawa, Y. Arakawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3314–3317 (1992)]. This makes polariton lasers extremely promising as ultralow threshold lasers or as low-power sources of coherent and nonclassical light. Electrical injection of these entangled light-matter states is a key step toward the realisation of practical, compact devices. Recent demonstrations of electrically pumped polariton LEDs in organic as well as inorganic material systems operating up to room temperature have highlighted the potential of such devices for real-world polariton-based applications in optoelectronics.KeywordsQuantum WellCavity ModePolariton ModeRabi SplittingPolariton BranchThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.