Calculation of up-conversion photoluminescence in Er3+ ions near noble-metal nanoparticles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7725, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hallermann, Florian ^a   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^b   Fischer, Stefan ^b   Löper, Philipp ^b   Von Plessen, Gero ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION RATE; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INFRARED PHOTONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODEL CALCULATIONS; NEAR INFRARED; NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES; NON-RADIATIVE RELAXATION; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; QUENCHING EFFECT; RARE EARTH IONS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SILICON BAND GAP; SILICON LAYER; SOLAR SPECTRUM; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ERBIUM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; PRECIOUS METALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR RADIATION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77953775827     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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