Radiation channels close to a plasmonic nanowire visualized by back focal plane imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10257-10262

  Hartmann, Nicolai ^a   Piatkowski, Dawid ^a,b   Ciesielski, Richard ^a   Mackowski, Sebastian ^b   Hartschuh, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

back focal plane imaging; metallic nanowires; plasmonics; rare earth ions; upconversion

Indexed keywords

BACK FOCAL PLANES; METALLIC NANOWIRES; PLASMONICS; RARE EARTH IONS; UP-CONVERSION;

FOCUSING; METAL IONS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84888860229     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404611q     Document Type: Article

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