Graphene surface plasmon induced optical field confinement and lasing enhancement in ZnO whispering-gallery microcavity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 10469-10475

  Li, Jitao ^a   Xu, Chunxiang ^a   Nan, Haiyan ^a   Jiang, Mingming ^b   Gao, Guangyu ^c   Lin, Yi ^a   Dai, Jun ^a   Zhu, Gangyi ^a   Ni, Zhenhua ^a   Wang, Shufeng ^c   Li, Yan ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; optical field confinement; surface plasmon; whispering gallery mode lasing; ZnO

Indexed keywords

HYBRID MATERIALS; MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASMONS; ZINC OXIDE;

FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIELD; PHOTO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; SURFACE PLASMONS; WHISPERING-GALLERY MICROCAVITIES; WHISPERING-GALLERY MODE LASING; ZNO;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84904125621     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502043f     Document Type: Article

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