Anomalous enhanced emission from PbS quantum dots on a photonic-crystal microcavity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1365-1373

  Luk, Ting Shan ^a   Xiong, Shisheng ^b   Chow, Weng W ^a,c   Miao, Xiaoyu ^d   Subramania, Ganapathi ^a   Resnick, Paul J ^a   Fischer, Arthur J ^a   Brinker, Jeffrey C ^a,b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COMBINED EFFECT; DIELECTRIC ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED EMISSION; ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM; FREESTANDING FILMS; LOCAL FIELDS; LOCAL POLARIZATION; SPECTRAL DIFFUSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79958776834     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.001365     Document Type: Article

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