Light emission rate enhancement from InP MQW by plasmon nano-antenna arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9807-9813

  Arbe, David ^a   Berkovitch, Nikolai ^a   Nevet, Amir ^a   Peer, Andrea ^a   Cohen, Shimon ^a   Ritter, Dan ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; EMISSION RATES; INGAAS/INP; INP; MULTI QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; PLASMONIC; QUANTUM-WELLS; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION RATE; SINGLE-STRIP; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 79955824061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009807     Document Type: Article

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