Plasmonics for solid-state lighting: Enhanced excitation and directional emission of highly efficient light sources

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Lozano, Gabriel ^a   Louwers, Davy J ^a   Rodríguez, Said R K ^a   Murai, Shunsuke ^a,b   Jansen, Olaf T A ^a   Verschuuren, Marc A ^a   Gómez Rivas, Jaime ^a,c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Fluorescence; LED; Nanophotonics; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879108795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2013.22     Document Type: Article

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