Light extraction with dielectric nanoantenna arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2715-2721

  Pellegrini, Giovanni ^a   Mattei, Giovanni ^a   Mazzoldi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crystal; Fluorescence enhancement; Nanoantenna; Photonic crystal; Plasmon; Plasmonic

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; EMISSION QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; L-MODES; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LINEAR ARRAYS; LOSSLESS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; NANOANTENNA; NANOANTENNAE; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; PLASMONIC; TIO; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 70349533094     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900481v     Document Type: Article

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