Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode

The possibility of laser action at the solution/working electrode interface in an electrochemical cell with modified electrode by multilayer active organic electrochemiluminescer is considered. Physical and mathematical models for processes of excitation energy transfer and light generation for prop...

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Автори: Vasyanovitch, D.A., Zholudov, Y.T., Rozhitskii, N.N.
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spelling irk-123456789-1191302017-06-05T03:03:03Z Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode Vasyanovitch, D.A. Zholudov, Y.T. Rozhitskii, N.N. The possibility of laser action at the solution/working electrode interface in an electrochemical cell with modified electrode by multilayer active organic electrochemiluminescer is considered. Physical and mathematical models for processes of excitation energy transfer and light generation for proposed structure are discussed and results of computer simulation are presented. 2004 Article Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode / D.A. Vasyanovitch, Y.T. Zholudov, N.N. Rozhitskii // Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. — 2004. — Т. 7, № 3. — С. 304-308. — Бібліогр.: 11 назв. — англ. 1560-8034 PACS: 42.55.Zz http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/119130 en Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics Інститут фізики напівпровідників імені В.Є. Лашкарьова НАН України
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Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
Semiconductor Physics Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics
author_facet Vasyanovitch, D.A.
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title Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
title_short Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
title_full Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
title_fullStr Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
title_full_unstemmed Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode
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fulltext Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2004. V. 7, N 3. P. 304-308. © 2004, V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine304 PACS: 42.55.Zz Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in a cell with a multilayer working electrode D.A. Vasyanovitch, Y.T. Zholudov, N.N. Rozhitskii Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Chair of Biomedical Electronics, 14, Lenin Av., 61166 Kharkiv, Ukraine Phone: +380 (57)702 13 64, E-mail: rzh@kture.kharkov.ua Abstract. The possibility of laser action at the solution/working electrode interface in an electrochemical cell with modified electrode by multilayer active organic electrochemi- luminescer is considered. Physical and mathematical models for processes of excitation en- ergy transfer and light generation for proposed structure are discussed and results of compu- ter simulation are presented. Keywords: electrochemiluminescence, dye laser, organic electrochemiluminescer, plane struc- ture, working electrode. Paper received 31.03.04; accepted for publication 21.10.04. 1. Introduction The idea of a laser, utilizing the effect of electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL), was proposed in the early 1970-s [1�3]. ECL is the light emission from the excited- state dye molecules, created by the electron transfer be- tween electrochemically generated anion- and cation- radicals. It was supposed that in contrast to conventional dye lasers, a laser operating by this principle would not require an additional source for optical pumping a dye into the required excited state, and may offer additional advantages in terms of efficiency, tunability, range of available wavelengths and miniature dimensions. Numer- ous analytical and experimental investigations revealed some essential difficulties, specifically concerned with low interaction efficiency of generated light and active medium, thus creating difficulties in achieving the popu- lation inversion. To overcome difficulties of lasing under electrochemical pumping several methods were proposed [1, 4, 5]. In this paper the structure of laser, consisting of an electrochemical cell with working electrode with work- ing electrode (WE) modified by the thin film of organic electrochemiluminescer molecules, physical and math- ematical models of processes on WE surface, leading to population inversion of electronic levels are considered. Hereinafter this laser is referred to as optochemotronic quantum generator (OCQG). 2. OCQG structure The main part of OCQG is the electrochemical cell with two parallel-sided electrodes � the working one and the auxiliary one (Fig. 1). Interelectrode space is filled with solution of electrochemically active organic molecules. The WE is modified with the layer of immobilized electrochemiluminescer molecules. The continuos wave lasing is supposed to be realized with the film of immobi- lized electrochemiluminescer (IEC) serving as the active medium. The ion-radicals of dissolved electrochemi- luminescer (DEC) are formed at the surface of auxiliary electrode (AE) and then diffuse towards WE after the voltage is applied to the cell. At the same time, the ion- radicals of IEC are created at the WE and then are re- acted with the ion-radicals of DEC with the formation of singlet-excited molecules � the emitters. The generated light is spread in the thin film of IEC, containing emit- ters, parallel to the WE surface. For the resonator mir- rors it is supposed to use multilayer dielectric mirrors with the reflection spectra maximum, corresponding to maximum amplification of the active layer. 3. WE structure For the considered OCQG scheme the WE structure and properties ought to be determined for the lasing possibi- D.A. Vasyanovitch et al.: Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in ... 305SQO, 7(3), 2004 lity under electrochemical excitation. The main WE func- tions are: � effective IEC ion-radicals formation; � effective transformation of ion-radicals energy into IEC molecules excitation energy; � effective interaction between emitters and OCQG light wave. For the purposes of light generation it is necessary to provide minimum losses for absorption, so only trans- parent to the generated wavelength materials can be used. Many organic semiconductors, either low-molecular crys- tals or polymers, satisfy this condition. For contact lay- ers thin film of transparent conducting oxides, such as ITO (indium-tin oxide) can be used. For the effective interaction between light wave and excited active centers it is necessary to provide wave- guiding properties of WE by using multilayer structure with the appropriate refractive index profile. The active layer, containing electrochemiluminescer molecules, should serve as a core of this planar optical waveguide. In general this waveguide is asymmetric. The DEC forms one of the waveguide claddings and its refractive index is mostly determined by the solvent optical properties. The second cladding is artificial; its properties should pro- vide maximum waveguiding of WE structure. The active layer should be thick enough to provide stable existence of principal mode. The excited molecules formation during anions and cations recombination occurs at the solution � WE phase boundary, so in order to provide effective interaction between emitters and OCQG light wave the excitation energy transfer deep into active layer is necessary. The radiative energy transfer can be neglected due to low active layer thickness. The basic ways of nonradiative energy transfer in such multilayer structure are resonance energy-transfer between donor and acceptor molecules of Dexter [4] and Forster [5] types. The Forster energy- transfer process involves a resonant interaction of the transition dipole moments of the donor and acceptor and does not require molecular contact, i.e. it is a through- space transfer [6]. The Forster mechanism is primarily leads to singlet-singlet energy transfer. Such transfer can occur for donor-acceptor distance over 100 angstroms; its efficiency is determined by donor fluorescence and acceptor absorption spectral overlap, donor quantum yield and lifetime, the relative orientation of the donor and acceptor transition dipole moments. The latter fac- tor leads to enhanced Forster energy-transfer in ordered two-dimensional structures like Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers. For the considered OCQG structure, it is vital to pro- vide singlet excited molecules formation in the IEC film on the WE surface. Here the determining factors are the ion-radicals charges in the film and solution as well as molecular orbitals energies of recombining ions. The probability of reaction products formation in appropri- ate energy state is determined by energy sufficiency of corresponding electron-transfer reaction. Besides molecu- lar orbitals energies, the reaction is considerably influ- enced by products and reactants interaction with their surroundings � the solvent and surrounding IEC mol- ecules. The energy of such interaction differs for reac- tants and products and also depends on the surround- ings. In general, the emitters formation is more probable from cation-radical precursor, so to localize excitation in IEC film, WE should be positively charged, i.e. it should be used as anode of the electrochemical cell and AE should be a cathode. For the effective cation-radical formation at the WE- solution boundary, the materials used for WE structure formation should posses enough conductivity and should not form barrier junctions in the current flow direction. The formation of cation-radicals in the IEC layer after positive potential application means electron transfer from the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of IEC molecule to a neighbor organic semiconductor mol- ecule. This can be considered as the hole transfer from the anode contact layer towards IEC layer, so intermedi- ate layers between IEC and anode contact should be hole semiconductors. To provide ohmic contacts to such semiconductors, it is reasonable to use conducting mate- rials with high work function to minimize difference of semiconductor HOMO level and conductor work func- tion. This will decrease potential barrier for the hole in- jection and thus will lower device operating voltage. It is common to use in optoelectronic devices Au or ITO as anode contacts. The latter is preferred due to its trans- parency in the visible region and work function tuning capability for enhanced anodic contacts. In the electrochemical cell with modified WE, the biradical recombination of cations and anions is a het- erogeneous reaction (at the electrode surface). The reac- tion rate of bulky organic molecules is strongly depend- ent on relative spatial orientation of reactants. Modern methods for thin organic films deposition allows obtain- ing high-quality monolayers with the strictly controlled spatial molecular orientation in the layer (Langmuir- Blodgett, self-assembly, electrostatic self-assembly and other methods). If one of the reactants is immobilized on 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fig. 1. OCQG structure: 1 � cell with DEC solution; 2 � IEC layer on the WE surface; 3 � AE; 4 � WE; 5 � full reflecting mirror; 6 � partially reflecting mirror. 306 SQO, 7(3), 2004 D.A. Vasyanovitch et al.: Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in ... the electrode surface, provided that its reaction centers are directed towards bulk of solution, then the reaction rate will increase considerably compared to a homoge- neous reaction in solution. Another important detail for modified WE is the en- ergy levels structure of molecules, contacting with IEC layer. The IEC excited singlet energy level energy ought to be in contacting layer bandgap for preventing nonra- diative intermolecular transfer of IEC excited electron, resulting in emitters quenching and OCQG performance fall. For this reason, IEC can not be deposited directly on metal electrode, because the latter possesses continu- ous energy spectrum and luminescence on its surface is impossible due to the quenching effect [1]. Summarizing the above mentioned ideas, the WE structure should contain transparent hole-transfer semi- conducting layer, doped with IEC molecules, transpa- rent contacts like ITO (Fig. 2). The organic layers can be deposited by means of Langmuir-Blodgett technique or any other. 3. Mathematical model of processes in OCQG WE For modeling and optimization of WE structure, the fol- lowing mathematical models development is necessary: � model of emitters formation and excitation energy transfer deep into IEC active layer; � model of WE waveguiding structure and principal mode field structure; � model of coherent OCQG light generation. Emitters formation rate at the IEC film-solution in- terface is determined by diffusional anion-radicals trans- fer in the solution volume and by charge transfer across WE structure with the formation of IEC cation-radicals. In this paper, the conducting properties of multilayer WE structure are not taken into account, so the emitters for- mation rate is considered to be solely diffusion-limited. The diffusional anions transfer in the electrochemical cell with modiffied WE was quantitatively studied in [8]. The singlet excitation energy transfer between layers of the multilayer Langmuir-Blodgett film is primarily realized via the singlet-singlet Forster mechanism, so the Dexter transfer will not be considered. The Forster theory gives the following transfer rate constant for donor-ac- ceptor molecules: ∫ ∞ ×≈ 0 464 2 23 )()( 1071.8 ν ν νεν τ φ d f Rn k k AD D D F , (1) where k2 � the relative orientation of the donor and ac- ceptor transition dipole moments (varies from 0 to 4); ϕD � the donor fluorescence quantum yield in the absence of an acceptor; n � the active medium refractive index; τD � the donor singlet excited-state lifetime; R � the do- nor-acceptor center-to-center separation distance; fD(ν) � the spectral distribution of donor fluorescence, norma- lized to unity; εA(ν) � the acceptor molar absorption co- efficient; ν � the frequency. In case of multilayer system, the energy transfer from one donor molecule to many molecules of the acceptor layer is possible, so the total transfer rate constant should be calculated. The energy transfer constant is additive. Since the transfer efficiency strongly depends on the do- nor-acceptor separation, the number of molecules in the acceptor layer that should be accounted in rate constant calculation can be limited. If the Langmuir-Blodgett tech- nique is used to form IEC multilayer structure of electro- chemiluminescer and organic semiconductor molecules, then all subsequent monolayers replicate the structure of previous ones. Assuming the uniform distribution of IEC molecules over the monolayer, the following equation for the interlayer energy transfer rate constant can be used: ( ) ( ) ( )( )∑ ∑ −= −= ∆⋅+∆⋅+∆⋅ ≈ N Ni N Nj FL zjyixl klk 3222 0 1 )( , (2) where l � 1 � number of monolayers, separating donor and acceptor layers (l = 1 for neighboring monolayers); k0 � transfer rate constant for unit of donor-acceptor sepa- ration distance, calculated using (1); 2N+1 � number of acceptor layer molecules, accounted in calculation in one dimension; ∆y, ∆z � separation distance between two near- est IEC molecules in monolayer in Y and Z directions, assuming monolayer laying in YZ plane; ∆x � separa- tion distance between two neighboring IEC monolayers. Using the equation (2), the rate equations for excited levels population of IEC molecules can be written. The rate equations account two main processes in IEC multilayer structure: resonant excitation energy transfer and spontaneous deactivation of singlet excited levels. The solution of this system allows obtaining stationary emitters distribution across IEC film thickness. The rate equations system contains one equation for each monol- ayer of IEC film and can be written in the following way: 1 23 4 A A A e Energy Transfer L ig h t G e n e r a ti o n Fig. 2. Physical processes in OCQG WE structure: 1 � substrate; 2 � ITO contact; 3 � IEC multilayer structure; 4 � DEC solution. D.A. Vasyanovitch et al.: Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in ... 307SQO, 7(3), 2004 ( )( ) ( )( )( )          −−+−= −−+−⋅= ∑ ∑ ≠ =÷= = m ij j ijFL S i mi i m j jFL S S tNtNijk tN dt tdN tNtNjk tN tfl dt tNd ,12 2 1 11 ,)()( )()( ,)()()1( )( )( )( τ τ ϕ miiN ÷== 1 0)0( , (4) where Ni � excited singlet levels population of the i-th layer; ϕS � singlet yield of anions and cations biradical recombination; fl(t) � the recombination rate at the film- solution interface, determined by anions diffusional trans- fer kinetics; τS � IEC excited singlet lifetime; m � number of monolayers in IEC film. For the localization of radiation field in the active layer of WE structure, the formation of planar waveguide structure is considered. So, such structure calculation is necessary to estimate the interaction efficiency between the generated optical wave and excited IEC molecules. The multilayer structure of WE can be limited by five- layers planar structure. For the estimation purpose the exact structure modeling using wave approach is not nec- essary, the ray approach is quite enough. The calcula- tion of fundamental guided mode structure was done ac- cording to method, developed in [9, 10], using matrix approach for optical piles. The calculation was carried out for the following parameters (n � refractive index, d � layer thickness): glass substrate n = 1.4; ITO n = 2.1, d = 30 nm; organic semiconductor layer n = 1.5 d = 50 nm; IEC doped organic semiconductor layer n = 1.6 d = 100 nm; DEC solution n = 1.45. Fig. 3 shows fundamental guided mode intensity (1) and refractive index profile (2) of considered structure. The estimated optical confinement factors are à = 49% for active organic layer and à = 4% for ITO contact layer. The dynamics of light generation in OCQG is esti- mated using rate equations system for basic energy levels of IEC molecules involved in laser action. The electronic energy levels of organic dyes consists of broad bands of narrow vibrational and rotational lines and the popula- tion inversion is realized between lower vibrational sublevels of exited singlet state and upper sublevels of the ground state. This can be mathematically described by splitting the broad ground level into two sublevels with the lifetime of the upper one (�excited ground�) equal to the mean relaxation time between vibrational sublevels of the ground state. One of the main features of electro- chemical pumping is the high probability of the triplet states formation compared to optical excitation. As the triplets lifetime is higher than the singlets one, its influ- ence over kinetics in the system can not be neglected. The detailed studies of the triplet state influence requires con- sideration of the Dexter triplet energy transfer mecha- nism between film monolayers and triplet-triplet annihi- lation, leading to excited singlet state formation. For this moment, we do not have enough information about above mentioned processes in Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers and in this paper they will be neglected. The process of stimulated emission is described by photon flux density equation, averaged over the resona- tor length; the distribution of exited centers is also aver- aged over the thickness of the film [11]. Such simplified model makes it impossible to predict the beam structure and some other OCQG features, but gives us enough in- formation to determine possibility of laser action, esti- mate kinetic and energy parameters of the considered device. The rate equations system for OCQG light genera- tion with initial conditions can be written in the follow- ing way:                           +−Ω+−= −+−= −−    +−⋅= +−⋅−= ++−= , 1 ln 2 1 )( ,)( ),( 1)( , )( )1( , )( * * * * * * * * Iv rLz N NNIv td Id NN NNIv td Nd NNIvNk h tfl td Nd Nk N h tfl td Nd NN h tfl td Nd S S gSS g g S S gSS g gSSSST S S S SST T T S T g g T Tg β τ γσ ττ γσ γσ τ φ τ φ ττ     = === ,)0( ,0)0()0()0( 0 * NN NNN g gST (6) where NS, NT, Ng, Ng * � concentration of singlet, triplet, ground and �excited ground� states accordingly; N0 � initial concentration of IEC molecules in the film; I � photon density flux; τS, τT, τg* � singlet, triplet and �ex- cited ground� levels lifetimes; σS � singlet absorption cross-section; Lz � optical resonator length; r � partially reflecting mirror reflectivity; v � light velocity in the ac- tive layer; Ω � part of spontaneous radiation, amplified by the structure; β � active losses in planar waveguide (mainly due to ITO absorption); γ � coefficient of inter- action efficiency between optical wave and emitters; h � Fig. 3. The OCQG guided mode structure (1) and WE refractive index profile (2). 0 0 0.1�0.3 �0.2 �0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1 2 x, mµ M o d e in te n si ty , a . u . R ela tive in d ex 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 2.1 (5) (3) 308 SQO, 7(3), 2004 D.A. Vasyanovitch et al.: Possibility of a laser action under electrochemical excitation in ... active layer thickness; kST � singlet-triplet intramolecu- lar conversion rate constant. The interaction efficiency coefficient γ can be writ- ten as a product of two coefficients: the optical confine- ment factor à and interaction factor Ψ, determined from the following equalities: ∫∫ ∞ ∞− =Γ dxxIdxxI d d )()( 2 1 , (7) ( ) dxxNstxIdd d d ∫ ⋅−=Ψ 2 1 )()(12 , (8) where d1, d2 � active layer bounds (d2 � d1 = h); <I(x)> � normalized to unity radiation intensity across active layer thickness; <Nst(x)> � normalized to unity excitation en- ergy distribution across the active layer thickness. 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