Quenching, Plasmonic, and Radiative Decays in Nanogap Emitting Devices

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1739-1744

  Faggiani, Rémi ^a   Yang, Jianji ^a   Lalanne, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

decay rates; modal formalism; nanocavity; optical nanoantennas; quenching; spontaneous emission

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; LIGHT EMISSION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; QUENCHING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DECAY RATE; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; INSULATOR MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; MODAL FORMALISM; NANO-CAVITIES;

NANOANTENNAS;

EID: 84950246723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00424     Document Type: Article

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