Unidirectional emission of a quantum dot coupled to a nanoantenna

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5994, 2010, Pages 930-933

  Curto, Alberto G ^a   Volpe, Giorgio ^a   Taminiau, Tim H ^a   Kreuzer, Mark P ^a   Quidant, Romain ^a,b   Van Hulst, Niek F ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ANISOTROPY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; LUMINESCENCE; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77955915514     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191922     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank M. Castro-López for help in developing the fabrication method and M. U. González, F. Kulzer, F. D. Stefani, D. Brinks, and R. Hildner for helpful discussions. This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) and the Ministry of Education through programs FIS2009-08203, CONSOLIDER CSD2007-046, FPU (A.G.C. and G.V.), FPI (T.H.T.) and Ramón y Cajal (M.P.K.), Fundació CELLEX Barcelona (G.V., M.P.K., R.Q., and N.F.v.H.), and the European Research Council Advanced Grant (N.F.v.H.).