An optical nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent organic dye having a high quality factor

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3039-3044

  Adawi, Ali M ^a   Murshidy, Mohamed M ^a,b   Fry, Paul W ^a   Lidzey, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Helwan University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain calculations; Fluorescent molecular dye; Optical nanocavity; Organic semiconductor; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

CAVITY MODE; CAVITY SURFACES; EMISSION INTENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULAR-DYE; HIGH Q FACTOR; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MODE STRUCTURE; NANO-CAVITIES; ORGANIC DYE; ORGANIC-SEMICONDUCTOR; QUALITY FACTORS; SOLVENT FREE; THEORETICAL LIMITS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON NITRIDE;

FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77955899533     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1001479     Document Type: Article

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