Surface exciton-plasmon polariton enhanced light emission via integration of single semiconductor nanowires with metal nanostructures

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-53

  Zhang, Xuejin ^a   Wang, Pengwei ^a   Zhang, Xinzheng ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Zhu, Yongyuan ^b   Yu, Dapeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emission enhancement; Gratings; Nanowire waveguides; Semiconductor nanowires; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349110078     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9001-3     Document Type: Article

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