Plasmonic engineering of spontaneous emission from silicon nanocrystals

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Goffard, Julie ^a,b   Gérard, Davy ^a   Miska, Patrice ^b   Baudrion, Anne Laure ^a   Deturche, Régis ^a   Plain, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

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EID: 84919768345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02672     Document Type: Article

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