Enhancing spontaneous emission rates of molecules using nanopatterned multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-53

  Lu, Dylan ^a   Kan, Jimmy J ^b   Fullerton, Eric E ^a,b   Liu, Zhaowei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PLASMONICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; EMISSION INTENSITY; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; RADIATIVE EFFICIENCY; RADIATIVE EMISSIONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; SURFACE PLASMON MODES;

MOLECULES;

HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIAL; NANOMATERIAL; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); RHODAMINE; SILICON; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE; NANOFABRICATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84891760033     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.276     Document Type: Article

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