Engineering gold nanoantennae to enhance the emission of quantum emitters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6717, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Agio, Mario ^a   Mori, Giorgio ^a   Kaminski, Franziska ^a,d   Rogobete, Lavinia ^a   Kühn, Sergei ^a,e   Callegari, Victor ^b   Nellen, Philipp M ^b,f   Robin, Franck ^a   Ekinci, Yasin ^a,c   Sennhauser, Urs ^b   Jäckel, Heinz ^a   Solak, Harun H ^c   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f RUAG Aerospace   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence enhancement; Localized surface plasmon resonance; Metal nanoparticle; Optical nanoantenna; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; LITHOGRAPHY;

FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OPTICAL NANOANTENNA;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 42149177281     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.754367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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