Enhanced photoluminescence of single-photon emitters in nanodiamonds on a gold film

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 374-376

  Chi, Yingzhi ^a   Chen, Gengxu ^a   Jelezko, Fedor ^b   Wu, E ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gold film; nanodiamond; nitrogen vacancy (NV) color center; surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; EXCITED-STATE LIFETIME; GOLD FILM; NANO-DIAMONDS; NANODIAMOND; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; SATURATION CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE-PHOTON EMITTERS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SURFACE PLASMON; SURFACE PLASMONS;

COLOR; COLOR CENTERS; DIAMONDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; NITROGEN; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; PLASMONS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 79952418398     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2106488     Document Type: Article

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