Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 29, Issue 42, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201905051
Keywords
GaN microwires; lasing mode; piezoelectric effect; strain sensors; whispering gallery mode
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Funding
- national key R&D project from Minister of Science and Technology, China [2016YFA0202703]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61805015, 51622205, 61675027, 51432005, 61505010, 51502018]
- Beijing City Committee of Science And Technology [Z171100002017019, Z181100004418004]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [4181004, 4182080, 4184110, 2184131]
- Thousand Talents Program of China for pioneering researchers and innovative teams
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The continuous development of strain sensors offers significant opportunities for improving human-machine interfaces and health monitoring. The dynamically modulated lasing mode is a novel approach to realize a flexible, noncontact, high color-resolvability, high-resolution, and ultrasensitive strain sensor. Here, a flexible strain sensor perceiving stress variations is reported via the dynamical regulation of a GaN whispering gallery lasing mode based on the piezoelectric effect. The refraction index of GaN shows a linear relationship with the applied external tensile strain, resulting in a redshift phenomenon of the lasing mode peak at room temperature due to the predominant function of the piezoelectric polarization in the GaN microwire. Compared with a strain sensor relying on the wavelength shift of a photoluminescence (PL) emission peak, the differences and advantages of a sensor based on the strain-induced lasing mode variation are also investigated and analyzed systematically. This strain sensor may serve as an essential step toward the color mapping of mechanical signals by optical methods, with potential applications in color-perceived touching sensing, noncontact stress measurement, laser modulation, and optical communication technologies.
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