Giant built-in electric field enabled quantum-confined Stark effects

Shunshun Yang; Xueqian Sun; Fei Zhou; Jian Kang; Mengru Li; Xiaolong Liu; Han Yan; Xiaoguang Luo; Jiajie Pei; Hucheng Song; Shuchao Qin; Youwen Liu; Yuerui Lu; Linglong Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.5.056003

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 5, 056003(2025)

Giant built-in electric field enabled quantum-confined Stark effects

Shunshun Yang¹, Xueqian Sun², Fei Zhou³, Jian Kang¹, Mengru Li⁴, Xiaolong Liu⁵, Han Yan⁶, Xiaoguang Luo⁷, Jiajie Pei⁸, Hucheng Song¹, Shuchao Qin^4、*, Youwen Liu^1、*, Yuerui Lu^2、*, and Linglong Zhang^1,9、*

Author Affiliations

¹Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, College of Physics, Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Materials and Physics, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Nanjing, China

²Australian National University, College of Systems and Society, School of Engineering, Canberra, Australia

³Southwest University of Science and Technology, School of Materials and Chemistry, State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Mianyang, China

⁴Liaocheng University, School of Physical Science and Information Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology of Shandong Province, Liaocheng, China

⁵North China Electric Power University, School of New Energy, Beijing, China

⁶University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁷Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Institute of Flexible Electronics, Shaanxi Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi’an, China

⁸Fuzhou University, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou, China

⁹Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing, China

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Received: Apr. 18, 2025

Accepted: Jul. 4, 2025

Posted: Jul. 14, 2025

Published Online: Aug. 6, 2025

The Author Email: Shuchao Qin (qinshuchao@lcu.edu.cn), Youwen Liu (ywliu@nuaa.edu.cn), Yuerui Lu (yuerui.lu@anu.edu.au), Linglong Zhang (linglongzhang1@126.com)

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