Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 835-840

  Akselrod, Gleb M ^a,b   Argyropoulos, Christos ^a,b   Hoang, Thang B ^a   Ciracì, Cristian ^a,b,c   Fang, Chao ^b   Huang, Jiani ^a   Smith, David R ^a,b   Mikkelsen, Maiken H ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NANOANTENNAS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLASMONICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; TIME-RESOLVED EMISSIONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84908495007     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.228     Document Type: Article

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