Room-temperature polariton lasing in an organic single-crystal microcavity

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 371-375

  Kena Cohen S ^a,b   Forrest, S R ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMBIC INTERACTIONS; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; EXCITED ELECTRONS; EXCITON-PHOTON INTERACTION; NONLINEAR EMISSIONS; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; ORGANIC MICROCAVITY; ORGANIC SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); EXCITONS; LASER MIRRORS; MICROCAVITIES; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLIDS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 77954824452     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.86     Document Type: Article

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