Researchers observe excitation enhancement in plasmonic antenna despite the presence of strong quenching losses affecting the emission.

Researchers observe excitation enhancement in plasmonic antenna despite the presence of strong quenching losses affecting the emission.
Alex Jen and co-workers publish work describing a new series of anionic polymethine dyes, designed for application in improved guest-host materials.
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A new type of on-chip microcavities has been realized, which features both highly unidirectional emission and ultra-high-Q factors in the near infrared.
Carefully engineered CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum dots show an almost constant amplified spontaneous emission threshold over a temperature range from 5–325 K.
The near-field enhancement on the surface of ring-shaped gold nanostructure becomes homogeneous through circularly polarized light.
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have shown that there are four plasmon bands in (Au core)−(Ag shell) nanorods.
Double split-ring resonators with optimized Fano resonances for refractive index sensing could be realised by hole-mask colloidal nanolithography.
The emission of polymer distributed feedback lasers can be tuned by integrating nonlinear optical organic molecules.
The plasmonic behavior of touching semiconductor disks shows a highly efficient broadband response in the terahertz regime as predicted by theoretical studies.