Whispering gallery mode lasing from zinc oxide hexagonal nanodisks

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3270-3276

  Gargas, Daniel J ^a,b   Moore, Michael C ^a,b   Ni, Adrian ^c   Chang, Shu Wei ^c   Zhang, Zhaoyu ^a,b   Chuang, Shun Lien ^c   Yang, Peidong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk; Lasing; Mode simulation; Whispering gallery; ZnO

Indexed keywords

DISK; LASING; MODE SIMULATION; WHISPERING GALLERY; ZNO;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

NANOMATERIAL; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 77955859951     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9018174     Document Type: Article

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