Strongly modified spontaneous emission decay rate of silicon nanocrystals near semicontinuous gold films

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26548-26558

  Nakamura, Toshihiro ^a   Tiwari, Bishnu P ^a   Adachi, Sadao ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY CURVES; DECAY RATE; DECAY RATE DISTRIBUTION; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; GOLD FILM; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SEMI-CONTINUOUS; SI NANOCRYSTAL; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

DECAY (ORGANIC); GOLD; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METALLIC FILMS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870600049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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