Control of the external photoluminescent quantum yield of emitters coupled to nanoantenna phased arrays

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Guo, Ke ^a,c   Lozano, Gabriel ^a,d   Verschuuren, Marc A ^a   Gómez Rivas, Jaime ^a,b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOANTENNAS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM YIELD;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EMITTING MATERIAL; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; INTEGRATING SPHERES; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 84939839939     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928616     Document Type: Article

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