Direct modulation of lanthanide emission at sub-lifetime scales

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2264-2269

  Karaveli, Sinan ^a   Weinstein, Aaron J ^a   Zia, Rashid ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Europium; lanthanides; local density of optical states (LDOS); magnetic dipole transitions; modulation; photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXCITED STATE LIFETIMES; LANTHANIDE EMISSION; LOCAL DENSITY OF OPTICAL STATE (LDOS); MAGNETIC DIPOLE TRANSITION; MODULATION SCHEMES; OPTICAL ENVIRONMENT; TRIVALENT EUROPIUM IONS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EUROPIUM; EXCITED STATES; MIRRORS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

MODULATION;

EID: 84877248900     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl400883r     Document Type: Article

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