A plasmonic random laser tunable through stretching silver nanowires embedded in a flexible substrate

Nanoscale

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2235-2240

  Zhai, Tianrui ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Chen, Li ^b   Wang, Jieyu ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Liu, Dahe ^c   Li, Songtao ^a,b   Liu, Hongmei ^a   Zhang, Xinping ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SILICONES; SILVER; SILVER NANOWIRES;

FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; LASER PERFORMANCE; PARTIAL POLARIZATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PLASMON RESONANCES; POLARIZATION STATE; TUNABLE RANDOM LASER; TUNING PROPERTIES;

ORGANIC LASERS;

EID: 84922340997     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr06632d     Document Type: Article

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