Spectroscopic imaging for characterization of metal-enhanced upconversion

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 001758-001761

  Zhong, L ^a   Lu, A ^b   Paudel, H ^c   Bayat, K ^c   Baroughi, M ^c   May, P S ^b   Smith, S ^a  

^a United States   (United States)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

^c South Dakota State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; NANO-PILLAR ARRAYS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NEAR INFRARED; OPTIMAL PROPERTIES; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL VARIATION; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; UP-CONVERSION;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ERBIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84861060122     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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