Inhibition and enhancement of the spontaneous emission of quantum dots in micropillar cavities with radial-distributed Bragg reflectors

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9970-9978

  Jakubczyk, Tomasz ^a,b   Franke, Helena ^c   Smoleński, Tomasz ^a   ͆ciesiek, Maciej ^a   Pacuski, Wojciech ^a,b   Golnik, Andrzej ^a   Schmidt Grund, Rüdiger ^c   Grundmann, Marius ^c   Kruse, Carsten ^b,d   Hommel, Detlef ^b   Kossacki, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

leaky mode; micropillar cavity; Purcell effect; quantum dot; radial distributed Bragg reflector; spontaneous emission inhibition

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFLECTION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

DENSITY OF PHOTONIC STATE; INHIBITION AND ENHANCEMENTS; LEAKY MODES; MICROPILLAR CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CONFINEMENTS; PURCELL EFFECT; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; TIME RESOLVED EXPERIMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84908426125     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5017555     Document Type: Article

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