Fabrication of two-dimensional Ta2O5 photonic crystal slabs with ultra-low background emission toward highly sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1422-1428

  Kaji, Takahiro ^a   Yamada, Toshiki ^a   Ueda, Rieko ^a   Xu, Xingsheng ^b   Otomo, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GAS EMISSIONS; MICROCOMPUTERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; TANTALUM OXIDES;

BACKGROUND EMISSIONS; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL DETECTION; PERYLENEDIIMIDES; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL SLAB; TANTALUM PENTOXIDE; THERMAL-ANNEALING; ULTRA LOW BACKGROUNDS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OXIDE; TANTALUM; TANTALUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; OXIDES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TANTALUM; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78751525930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001422     Document Type: Article

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