Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Electrically-driven Yagi-Uda antennas for light

  • René Kullock,
  • Maximilian Ochs,
  • Philipp Grimm,
  • Monika Emmerling,
  • Bert Hecht

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14011-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Nanoantennas have been developed to direct light, but most still rely on laboratory scale light sources. Here, the authors demonstrate electrically-driven directional emission in the optical frequency range using a nanogap in conjunction with a Yagi-Uda antenna nanostructure.