Optical Antenna for Spontaneous Light Emission from LED (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Optical Antenna for Spontaneous Light Emission from LED

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Coupling a gold antenna to a InGaAsP nanorod, isolated by TiO2, and embedded in epoxy, greatly enhanced the spontaneous light emission of the InGaAsP.

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(Image courtesy of Eli Yablonovitch, Berkeley Lab)

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