Highly directional emission and photon beaming from nanocrystal quantum dots embedded in metallic nanoslit arrays

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1630-1635

  Livneh, Nitzan ^a   Strauss, Ayelet ^a   Schwarz, Ilai ^a   Rosenberg, Itamar ^a   Zimran, Adiel ^a   Yochelis, Shira ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Banin, Uri ^a   Paltiel, Yossi ^a   Rapaport, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

extraordinary transmission; nanoantennas; nanophotonics; Plasmonics; quantum dots

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICAL DEVICES; BRAGG CAVITY; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; DIVERGENCE ANGLE; EIGEN MODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; EMISSION PROBABILITIES; EMISSION PROPERTIES; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; METALLIC NANOSLIT ARRAYS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MOMENTUM SPACES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOCRYSTAL QUANTUM DOTS; NANOEMITTERS; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; RESONANT COUPLINGS; SPATIAL CONTROL; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

BRAGG CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79954481322     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl200052j     Document Type: Article

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