Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7168, 2007, Pages 402-406

  Akimov, A V ^a,d   Mukherjee, A ^a   Yu, C L ^b   Chang, D E ^a   Zibrov, A S ^a,d   Hemmer, P R ^c   Park, H ^a,b   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Texas A M University   (United States)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; METAL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIELD EMISSION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 36248998281     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06230     Document Type: Article

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