Third-harmonic-upconversion enhancement from a single semiconductor nanoparticle coupled to a plasmonic antenna

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 290-294

  Aouani, Heykel ^a   Rahmani, Mohsen ^a   Navarro Cía, Miguel ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; TIN OXIDES;

FAR-FIELD RADIATION; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDIUM-TIN OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

DRUG DELIVERY;

DIMER; GOLD; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANOROD; QUANTUM DOT; NANOPARTICLE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON BEAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANODEVICE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; PLASMONIC ANTENNA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THIRD HARMONIC UPCONVERSION NANOSYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIELD EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 84898896912     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.27     Document Type: Article

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