Plasmon enhanced luminescence from fullerene molecules excited by local electron tunneling

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2714-2721

  Rossel, Frédéric ^a   Pivetta, Marina ^a   Patthey, François ^a   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; FULLERENES; GOLD; GROUND STATE; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULES; PLASMONS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

AU(1 1 1 ); CHEMICAL RECOGNITION; ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATE; FULLERENE MOLECULES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANO SCALE; PLASMON-ENHANCED LUMINESCENCE; ULTRA-THIN;

EXCITED STATES;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 60549096308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002714     Document Type: Article

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