Enhanced spontaneous emission from semiconductor nanocrystals embedded in whispering gallery optical microcavities

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2001, Pages

  Fan, Xudong ^a   Wang, Hailin ^a   Lonergan, Mark C ^a   Zhang, Yuzhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MOLECULAR PROBES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; OPTICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0035884350     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.115310     Document Type: Article

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