Enabling enhanced emission and low-threshold lasing of organic molecules using special Fano resonances of macroscopic photonic crystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 13711-13716

  Zhen, Bo ^a   Chua, Song Liang ^a   Lee, Jeongwon ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro W ^a   Liang, Xiangdong ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a   Shapira, Ofer ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced light matter interaction; Fluorescence enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRYSTAL; DILUTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MEASUREMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ENHANCED LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT;

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 84882788286     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311866110     Document Type: Article

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