Wavelength sensitivity of single nanowire excitation polarization anisotropies explained through a generalized treatment of their linear absorption

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1979-1987

  Giblin, Jay ^a   Protasenko, Vladimir ^b   Kuno, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption cross section; Anisotropy; CdSe; Core shell; Dielectric contrast; Nanowire

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING DIELECTRICS; ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTION; BAND-EDGE EMISSIONS; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; BULK-LIKE; CDSE; CDSE/CDS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CORE/SHELL; DIELECTRIC CONTRAST; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; LINEAR ABSORPTION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLANE WAVE EXCITATION; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION RESPONSE; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SINGLE NANOWIRES; SOLUTION CHEMISTRY; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCY; WAVELENGTH OF LIGHT; WAVELENGTH SENSITIVITY;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC WIRE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 68649116809     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900380h     Document Type: Article

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