Strong photoluminescence enhancement from colloidal quantum dot near silver nano-island films

Journal of Fluorescence

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 539-543

  Langhuth, Hagen ^a   Frédérick, Simon ^a   Kaniber, Michael ^a   Finley, Jonathan J ^a   Rührmair, Ulrich ^b  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plasmonic hot spots; Quantum dots; Self assembled films; Silver nano islands; Surface sensing

Indexed keywords

CDSE/ZNS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EMISSION INTENSITY; HOT SPOT; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOSCALE FILMS; NEAR-SURFACE; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; POST DEPOSITION ANNEALING; QUANTUM DOT; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; SELF ASSEMBLED FILMS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPATIAL DENSITIES; SURFACE SENSING;

LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL FILMS; QUARTZ; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THERMAL EVAPORATION;

SILVER;

EID: 80053384953     PISSN: 10530509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10895-010-0740-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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