Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Dynamically controlled Purcell enhancement of visible spontaneous emission in a gated plasmonic heterostructure

  • Yu-Jung Lu,
  • Ruzan Sokhoyan,
  • Wen-Hui Cheng,
  • Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh,
  • Artur R. Davoyan,
  • Ragip A. Pala,
  • Krishnan Thyagarajan,
  • Harry A. Atwater

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01870-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The dynamic control of light emission from quantum dots is generally controlled via optical or electrical pumping. Here, Lu et al. electrically control the local density of states around a quantum dot to modulate its visible light emission properties.