Room temperature strong coupling effects from single ZnO nanowire microcavity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 11830-11837

  Das, Ayan ^a   Heo, Junseok ^a   Bayraktaroglu, Adrian ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Ng, Tien Khee ^b   Phillips, Jamie ^a   Ooi, Boon S ^b   Bhattacharya, Pallab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITIES; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; ZINC OXIDE;

DIELECTRIC MICROCAVITIES; DYNAMIC CONDENSATION; LOW THRESHOLDS; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; MOTT TRANSITIONS; NON-LINEARITY; POLARITON DISPERSION; POLARITON EMISSIONS; POLARITON RELAXATION; POLARITONS; RABI SPLITTING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRONG COUPLING; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; ZNO NANOWIRES;

PHOTONS;

NANOTUBE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MINIATURIZATION; NANOTUBES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84861488696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011830     Document Type: Article

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