Tailoring hot-exciton emission and lifetimes in semiconducting nanowires via whispering-gallery nanocavity plasmons

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 669-675

  Cho, Chang Hee ^a   Aspetti, Carlos O ^a   Turk, Michael E ^b   Kikkawa, James M ^b   Nam, Sung Wook ^a   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLASMONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMON-EXCITON INTERACTIONS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE RATE ENHANCEMENTS; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SINGLE PHOTON EMITTERS; WHISPERING GALLERY;

EXCITONS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOWIRE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; IMPEDANCE; LIGHT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SULFATES; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052048387     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3067     Document Type: Article

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