Broadband spontaneous emission rate enhancement through the design of plasmonic nanoantennas

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 566-577

  Vallée, Renaud A L ^a,b   Ferrié, Mélanie ^a,b,c   Saadaoui, Hassan ^a,b   Ravaine, Serge ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND EMISSION SPECTRA; GOLD FILM; HEXAGONAL CLOSE-PACKED; ISOTHIOCYANATES; NANOANTENNAS; PLASMONIC; SILICA SHELL; SPONTANEOUS DECAY RATES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SILICA;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84862152397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000566     Document Type: Article

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