Increased upconversion quantum yield in photonic structures due to local field enhancement and modification of the local density of states – a simulation-based analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 105, 2013, Pages A883-A900

  Herter, Barbara ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^a   Fischer, Stefan ^a   Gutmann, Johannes ^a   Bläsi, Benedikt ^a   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONS; QUANTUM YIELD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; LOCAL DENSITY OF PHOTONIC STATE; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS; SIMULATION-BASED ANALYSIS; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84884582955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A883     Document Type: Article

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