Plasmonic bowtie nanolaser arrays

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5769-5774

  Suh, Jae Yong ^a   Kim, Chul Hoon ^a,c   Zhou, Wei ^b   Huntington, Mark D ^b   Co, Dick T ^a   Wasielewski, Michael R ^a   Odom, Teri W ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

coupled metal nanoparticles; Localized surface plasmons; plasmon lasing; Purcell effect; stimulated emission

Indexed keywords

BOW TIE; BOW-TIES; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DYE MOLECULE; GAP MODES; GAP PLASMON; HOT SPOT; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LOCALIZED PLASMON RESONANCE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; MODE VOLUME; NANOLASERS; NANOSCALE BIOSENSORS; NEW DESIGN; ORGANIC GAIN MATERIAL; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; PLASMONIC; PURCELL EFFECT; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SI-BASED; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-SMALL;

BIOSENSORS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASERS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; STIMULATED EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PLASMONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; KINETICS; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; KINETICS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869199946     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303086r     Document Type: Article

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