Enhancing infrared emission of mercury telluride (HgTe) quantum dots by plasmonic structures

Shaofan Yuan; Chen Chen; Qiushi Guo; Fengnian Xia

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-0276-1

Enhancing infrared emission of mercury telluride (HgTe) quantum dots by plasmonic structures

Light Sci Appl. 2020 Mar 10:9:37. doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-0276-1. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Shaofan Yuan¹, Chen Chen¹, Qiushi Guo², Fengnian Xia¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511 USA.
² 2Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.

Abstract

The coupling of HgTe quantum dots to a gold nanobump plasmonic array can enhance the spontaneous infrared emission by a factor of five and reduce the influence of nonradiative decay channels.

Keywords: Nanophotonics and plasmonics; Quantum dots.

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