Manipulating nonlinear emission and cooperative effect of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots by coupling to a silver nanorod complex cavity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nan, Fan ^a   Cheng, Zi Qiang ^a   Wang, Ya Lan ^a   Zhang, Qing ^b   Zhou, Li ^a,b   Yang, Zhong Jian ^c   Zhong, Yu Ting ^a   Liang, Shan ^a   Xiong, Qihua ^b,d   Wang, Qu Quan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84899810125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04839     Document Type: Article

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