Plasmonic sinks for the selective removal of long-lived states

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9958-9965

  Kéna Cohen, Stéphane ^a   Wiener, Aeneas ^a   Sivan, Yonatan ^a   Stavrinou, Paul N ^a   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Horsfield, Andrew ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nanoshells; nonradiative decay; organic lasers; photobleaching; plasmons; Purcell effect; quenching; sinks; triplets

Indexed keywords

NANOSHELLS; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; PURCELL EFFECT; SINKS; TRIPLETS;

EXCITED STATES; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PLASMONS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555169047     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203754v     Document Type: Article

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