Highly efficient resonant coupling of optical excitations in hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductor nanostructures

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 555-559

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Atay, Tolga ^b   Tischler, Jonathan R ^c   Bradley, M Scott ^c   Bulović, Vladimir ^c   Nurmikko, A V ^a,b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ABSORPTION AND EMISSIONS; EFFECTIVE ABSORPTION; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; LAYER-BY-LAYER SELF ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC/INORGANIC NANO-COMPOSITE; ORGANIC/INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DEVICE; EXCITATION; NANOANALYSIS; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSOR;

EID: 34548498597     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.253     Document Type: Article

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