Plasmonic beaming and active control over fluorescent emission

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jun, Young Chul ^a,b   Huang, Kevin C Y ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; OPTICAL ANTENNA; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; METAL;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT EMISSION; NANOSCALE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; METALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955057880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1286     Document Type: Article

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