Focusing on graphene’s high thermal conductivity and high emissivity, we developed a mid-IR light source using a suspended graphene structure as the light emitter. Compared to conventional mid-IR light emitters, this new source has approximately 1000x faster response time and 95% lower power consumption. In addition, it features high brightness and an emission spectrum similar to that of a black body. We used multilayer graphene deposited on Ni foil and transferred it onto a micro-trench etched into a Si/SiO2 wafer to create the suspended structure. The thermal insulation provided by this design allowed for heating of the free standing segment to temperatures over 1000 deg. C through electrical currents. Packaging the light emitter into a vacuum-sealed TO-5 metal can further improved the insulation and ensures a long lifetime for the graphene light emitter. These characteristics make the light source ideal for many analytical applications.
We developed a high-sensitivity GaN photocathode that works in transmission mode. It has 40.9 % quantum efficiency at
310 nm wavelength. Conventional GaN photocathodes, both transmission mode and reflection mode, are made on a
sapphire substrate using metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE). In reflection mode, a GaN photocathode has very
high quantum efficiency (QE) of over 50 %. However, in transmission mode, the quantum efficiency of a GaN photocathode
was about 25 % at 240 nm with this technique. Therefore, we developed a new GaN photocathode using a
glass-bonding technique, where a GaN thin film was bonded to a glass face plate. We found out that constituting an Al-
GaN layer on the light incidence side of the photocathode surface provided higher QE than a sole GaN layer type for
transmission mode. We focused on the band bending of the photocathode, and analyzed QE for both transmission mode
and reflection mode. We then verified the effectiveness of the AlGaN layer using the results from the analysis. The
high-sensitivity UV photocathode will be used for flame detection, corona discharge observation, and other UV imaging.
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