Photoluminescence enhancement in nanoimprinted photonic crystals and coupled surface plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7190-7195

  Reboud, V ^a   Kehagias, N ^a   Zelsmann, M ^b   Schuster, C ^c   Fink, M ^c   Reuther, F ^c   Gruetzner, G ^c   Torres, C M Sotomayor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c MICRO RESIST TECHNOLOGY GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOIMPRINTED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; SURFACE PLASMON FREQUENCY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALS; LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RHODAMINE;

EID: 34250176582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007190     Document Type: Article

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