Cavity-enhanced light emission from electrically driven carbon nanotubes

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 420-427

  Pyatkov, Felix ^a,b   Fütterling, Valentin ^a   Khasminskaya, Svetlana ^a   Flavel, Benjamin S ^a   Hennrich, Frank ^a   Kappes, Manfred M ^a   Krupke, Ralph ^a,b   Pernice, Wolfram H P ^a,c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; HOT CARRIERS; LINEWIDTH; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONICS; YARN;

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; HIGH REPRODUCIBILITY; HOT CARRIER INJECTION; LINEWIDTH BROADENING; MOLECULAR EMITTERS; NANOSCALE PHOTONICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SURFACE INTERACTIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84992296271     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.70     Document Type: Article

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