Integration, photostability and spontaneous emission rate enhancement of colloidal PbS nanocrystals for Si-based photonics at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 18680-18688

  Humer, Markus ^a   Guider, Romain ^a   Jantsch, Wolfgang ^a   Fromherz, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER BLENDS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE; EXCITATION INTENSITY; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; PHOTO-STABILITY; QUALITY FACTORS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; STRAIGHT WAVEGUIDES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84881488459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018680     Document Type: Article

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