Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Purcell-enhanced quantum yield from carbon nanotube excitons coupled to plasmonic nanocavities

  • Yue Luo,
  • Ehsaneh D. Ahmadi,
  • Kamran Shayan,
  • Yichen Ma,
  • Kevin S. Mistry,
  • Changjian Zhang,
  • James Hone,
  • Jeffrey L. Blackburn,
  • Stefan Strauf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01777-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes offer exciting optoelectronic applications but generally suffer from low quantum yields. Here, Luo et al. demonstrate that coupling nanotubes to plasmonic antennas can lead to large Purcell enhancement and corresponding increase in quantum yield as well as plasmonic thermometry at the single molecule level.