Design of plasmonic nanoantennae for enhancing spontaneous emission

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1623-1625

  Rogobete, Lavinia ^a   Kaminski, Franziska ^a   Agio, Mario ^a   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; GOLD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; WAVELENGTH;

ANTENNA GEOMETRY; OPTICAL NANOANTENNAE; RADIATIVE DECAY RATE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 35348980377     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.001623     Document Type: Article

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