Enhancing the fluorescence of individual thick shell CdSe/CdS nanocrystals by coupling to gold structures

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Canneson, D ^a   Mallek Zouari, I ^a   Buil, S ^a   Quelin X ^a   Javaux, C ^b   Dubertret, B ^b   Hermier, J P ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER PROCESS; CDSE/CDS; DECAY RATE; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EXCITATION PROCESS; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; GOLD FILM; GOLD STRUCTURES; METALLIC STRUCTURES; PHOTON COLLECTION; PLASMONIC; PULSED EXCITATION; RADIATIVE PROCESS; SEMI-CONTINUOUS; THICK SHELLS;

GOLD; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84863676737     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/6/063035     Document Type: Article

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