Novel hybrid organic/inorganic 2D quasiperiodic PC: From diffraction pattern to vertical light extraction

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-6

  Petti, Lucia ^a   Rippa, Massimo ^a   Zhou, Jun ^b   Manna, Liberato ^c   Zanella, Marco ^c   Mormile, Pasquale ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; AIR RODS; BRAGG SCATTERING; CDSE/CDS; CORE/SHELL; FAR FIELD DIFFRACTIONS; HOST MATRICES; INORGANIC MOIETIES; LIGHT EXTRACTION; NEW HIGH; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; ORGANIC/INORGANIC NANO-COMPOSITE; PHOTONIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTAL; PROCESSABILITY; QUASI-PERIODIC; RED EMISSIONS; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SPECTRA MEASUREMENTS; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY; ULTRA-LOW THRESHOLD;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; METAMATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC LASERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84862933857     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-371     Document Type: Article

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