Micro-concave waveguide antenna for high photon extraction from nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamond

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Rajasekharan, Ranjith ^a   Kewes, Günter ^b   Djalalian Assl, Amir ^a   Ganesan, Kumaravelu ^a   Tomljenovic Hanic, Snjezana ^a   McCallum, Jeffrey C ^a   Roberts, Ann ^a   Benson, Oliver ^b   Prawer, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84937046858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12013     Document Type: Article

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