Spontaneous emission of europium ions embedded in dielectric nanospheres

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 257403/1-257403/4

  Schniepp, Hannes ^a   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; FLUORESCENCE; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

DIELECTRIC NANOSPHERES; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; MIE RESONANCES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0037122340     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.257403     Document Type: Article

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