Time-resolved surface plasmon polariton coupled exciton and biexciton emission

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15560-15568

  Wang, Yikuan ^a   Yang, Tianyu ^a   Pourmand, Mahshid ^a   Miller, Jacob J ^a   Tuominen, Mark T ^a   Achermann, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; PHONONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

BI-EXCITONS; BIEXCITON EMISSION; DECAY DYNAMICS; EMISSION DYNAMICS; EXCITATION DENSITY; FREE SPACE; METAL SEPARATION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICALLY EXCITED SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTON ENERGY; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THIN METAL FILMS; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77954928775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015560     Document Type: Article

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