Plasmon enhanced upconversion luminescence near gold nanoparticles- simulation and analysis of the interactions

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 271-282

  Fischer, Stefan ^a   Hallermann, Florian ^b   Eichelkraut, Toni ^c   Von Plessen, Gero ^b   Krämer, Karl W ^d   Biner, Daniel ^d   Steinkemper, Heiko ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Goldschmidt, Jan C ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM YIELD;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL FIELD; PLASMON RESONANCES; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; TRANSITION RATES; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE; UP-CONVERTER; UPCONVERTERS;

GOLD;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84855451898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000271     Document Type: Article

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