Directional fluorescence emission by individual V-antennas explained by mode expansion

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8232-8241

  Vercruysse, Dries ^a,b   Zheng, Xuezhi ^c   Sonnefraud, Yannick ^d,e   Verellen, Niels ^a,b   Di Martino, Giuliana ^d   Lagae, Liesbet ^a,b   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^c   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^d   Van Dorpe, Pol ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

directionality; eigenmode expansion; Fano resonance; fluorescence; nanoantenna; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELASTIC WAVES; EXPANSION; FLUORESCENCE; NANORODS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIRECTIONAL FLUORESCENCE; DIRECTIONALITY; EIGEN-MODE EXPANSION; FANO RESONANCES; FAR FIELD INTERFERENCE; NANOANTENNA; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SCATTERED PLANE WAVE;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84906691703     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502616k     Document Type: Article

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