Whispering-gallery modes and light emission from a Si-nanocrystal-based single microdisk resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13218-13224

  Ghulinyan, Mher ^a   Navarro Urrios, Daniel ^b   Pitanti, Alessandro ^b   Lui, Alberto ^a   Pucke, Georg ^a   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RESONATORS;

EXCITED CARRIERS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; MODAL STRUCTURES; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; QUALITY FACTORS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SUB NANOMETERS; VISIBLE LIGHT EMISSION;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 50049086954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013218     Document Type: Article

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