Organic-inorganic nanocomposite array for spectrum and yield enhancement

Summary form only given. In this work, we investigate organic-inorganic nanocomposite arrays for applications in future nano-photonics. We report on the drastic difference in absorption spectrum between the rhodamine-in-nanopore array and the more conventional rhodamine film-on-glass setting, and on the many-fold increase of the fluorescence yield in the former. The experimental findings not only highlight the great benefits in forming organic-inorganic nanocomposite arrays for high yield, broadly tunable light emission/detection and nonlinear optics but also offer insights into the self-assembling (aggregation) and energy transport mechanisms of molecules in highly confined, highly anisotropic nanoscale pores.