Optical antenna enhanced spontaneous emission

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1704-1709

  Eggleston, Michael S ^a   Messer, Kevin ^a   Zhang, Liming ^b   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a   Wu, Ming C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal optics; Nanophotonics; Plasmonics; Ultrafast devices

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

EID: 84922684420     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423294112     Document Type: Article

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