Use of a gold reflecting-layer in optical antenna substrates for increase of photoluminescence enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12552-12561

  Fernandez Garcia, Roberto ^a   Rahmani, Mohsen ^b,c   Hong, Minghui ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GOLD; SILICA;

NANOANTENNAS; NANOEMITTERS; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL ANTENNAE; ORGANIC EMITTERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; TETRAPHENYLPORPHYRINS;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878607110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012552     Document Type: Article

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