Spontaneous decay of an excited state of an emitter coupled to parallel SWNTs placed in the vicinity of a plane interface between two dielectric materials

Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 381-389

  Nemilentsau, A M ^a,c   Slepyan, G Ya ^a   Maksimenko, S A ^a   Lakhtakia, A ^b   Rotkin, S V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Nanoantenna; Spontaneous decay

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; BI-MATERIAL INTERFACES; DECAY RATE; HALF SPACES; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; NANOANTENNAS; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SPONTANEOUS DECAY; SPONTANEOUS DECAY RATES; SUB-RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DECAY (ORGANIC); EXCITED STATES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PERMITTIVITY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 80053208435     PISSN: 15694410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2011.03.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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