Reversible polarization control of single photon emission

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 606-610

  Moerland, Robert J ^a   Taminiau, Tim H ^b   Novotny, Lukas ^c   Van Hülst, Niek F ^b,d   Kuipers, Laurens ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTON EMISSION; REVERSIBLE POLARIZATION; TUNABILITY;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; POLARIZATION;

PHOTONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 40449104093     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl073026y     Document Type: Article

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