Enhanced downconversion of UV light by resonant scattering of aluminum nanoparticles

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 368-370

  Mupparapu, Rajeshkumar ^a   Vynck, Kevin ^a   Malfanti, Iacopo ^a   Vignolini, Silvia ^a,b   Burresi, Matteo ^a,c   Scudo, Petra ^d   Fusco, Roberto ^d   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^d ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NANOPARTICLES; DOWNCONVERSION; DYE MOLECULE; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; OPTICAL FIELD; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RESONANT SCATTERING; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH RANGE; VOLUME EFFECT;

ALUMINUM;

NANOPARTICLES;

ALUMINUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALUMINUM; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84856627514     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.000368     Document Type: Article

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