Whispering-gallery-mode lasing from a semiconductor nanocrystal/ microsphere resonator composite

Advanced Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1131-1136

  Snee, Preston T ^a   Chan, Yinthai ^a   Nocera, Daniel G ^a   Bawendi, Moungi G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COLLOIDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL RESONATORS; DISPERSIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SPIN COATING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

MICROSPHERES; MONODISPERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; WHISPERING-GALLERY-MODE (WGM) LASING;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 18744378887     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200401571     Document Type: Article

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