Dual-channel spontaneous emission of quantum dots in magnetic metamaterials

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Decker, Manuel ^a   Staude, Isabelle ^a   Shishkin, Ivan I ^b,c   Samusev, Kirill B ^b,c   Parkinson, Patrick ^a   Sreenivasan, Varun K A ^d   Minovich, Alexander ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Zvyagin, Andrei ^d   Jagadish, Chennupati ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84890727075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3949     Document Type: Article

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