Optomechanical Thermometry of Nanoribbon Cantilevers

Cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanostructures have attracted a significant amount of attention for a variety of optoelectronic applications including photovoltaic cells, semiconductor lasers, and solid-state laser refrigeration due to their direct bandgap around 2.42 eV and high radiative quantum efficiency....

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Published in:	Journal of physical chemistry. C Vol. 122; no. 13; pp. 7525 - 7532
Main Authors:	Pant, Anupum, Smith, Bennett E, Crane, Matthew J, Zhou, Xuezhe, Lim, Matthew B, Frazier, Stuart A, Davis, E. James, Pauzauskie, Peter J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Chemical Society 05-04-2018
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Summary:	Cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanostructures have attracted a significant amount of attention for a variety of optoelectronic applications including photovoltaic cells, semiconductor lasers, and solid-state laser refrigeration due to their direct bandgap around 2.42 eV and high radiative quantum efficiency. Nanoribbons (NRs) of CdS have been claimed to laser cool following excitation at 514 and 532 nm wavelengths by the annihilation of optical phonons during anti-Stokes photoluminescence. To explore this claim, we demonstrate a novel optomechanical experimental technique for microthermometry of a CdSNR cantilever using Young’s modulus as the primary temperature-dependent observable. Measurements of the cantilever’s fundamental acoustic eigenfrequency at low laser powers showed a red-shift in the eigenfrequency with increasing power, suggesting net heating. At high laser powers, a decrease in the rate of red-shift of the eigenfrequency is explained using Euler–Bernoulli elastic beam theory, considering Hookean optical-trapping force. A predicted imaginary refractive index for CdSNR based on experimental temperature measurement agrees well with a heat transfer analysis that predicts the temperature distribution within the cantilever and the time required to reach steady state (<100 μs). This approach is useful for investigating solid-state laser refrigeration of a wide variety of material systems without the need for complex pump/probe spectroscopy.
ISSN:	1932-7447 1932-7455
DOI:	10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00365