Plasmon-enhanced light harvesting of chlorophylls on near-percolating silver films via one-photon anti-stokes upconversion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Ya Lan ^a   Nan, Fan ^a   Liu, Xiao Li ^a   Zhou, Li ^a   Peng, Xiao Niu ^a   Zhou, Zhang Kai ^a   Yu, Ying ^a   Hao, Zhong Hua ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Wang, Qu Quan ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^c,d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878632195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01861     Document Type: Article

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