Localized surface plasmon resonance enhanced photoluminescence from SiNx with different N/Si ratios

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1437-1448

  Wang, Feng ^a,b   Wang, Minghua ^a   Li, Dongsheng ^a,b   Yang, Deren ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PHOTO-EXCITATIONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITIES; PL INTENSITY; PL SPECTRA; RESONANCE ABSORPTION; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO; SURFACE COVERAGES;

NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PLASMONS; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84870311781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001437     Document Type: Article

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