Observation of Considerable Upconversion Enhancement Induced by Cu2-xS Plasmon Nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 5169-5179

  Zhou, Donglei ^a   Liu, Dali ^a   Xu, Wen ^a,b   Yin, Ze ^a   Chen, Xu ^a   Zhou, Pingwei ^a   Cui, Shaobo ^a   Chen, Zhanguo ^a   Song, Hongwei ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

broadening; decrease and red shift of LSPRs; electron injection; semiconductor plasmon nanoparticles; upconversion luminescence enhancement

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON INJECTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGANDS; LUMINESCENCE; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BROADENING; FREE CARRIER CONCENTRATION; HEAVILY DOPED; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; RED SHIFT; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84973394965     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00649     Document Type: Article

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