Broadband light management using low-Q whispering gallery modes in spherical nanoshells

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yao, Yan ^a   Yao, Jie ^a   Narasimhan, Vijay Kris ^a   Ruan, Zhichao ^b   Xie, Chong ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Cui, Yi ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; NANOSHELL; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; LIGHT; MOLECULAR MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; POWER SUPPLY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSHELLS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857760793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1664     Document Type: Article

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