Random lasing action from ZnO-silica nanohybrids

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Stassinopoulos, Andreas ^a,b   Das, Rabindra N ^c   Anastasiadis, Spiros H ^a,b   Giannelis, Emmanuel P ^c   Anglos, Demetrios ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent and luminescent materials; Nanoscale materials and structures; Random lasers; Sol gel; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICA MATRIX; ELECTRON HOLE PLASMA; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXCITATION ENERGY DENSITY; FLUORESCENT AND LUMINESCENT MATERIALS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ANNEALING; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIAL STABILITY; NANO-HYBRID MATERIALS; NANOHYBRIDS; NANOSCALE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCATTERING MEDIUM; SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES; ULTRAVIOLET LASER PULSE; ZNO; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

EXCITATION ENERGY; FEEDBACK; FLUORESCENCE; GELS; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICA; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 75849150747     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/2/024006     Document Type: Article

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