Title :
Nanopatterned multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials for enhancing spontaneous light emission
Author :
Lu, Dan ; Ferrari, Lorenzo ; Kan, Jimmy J. ; Fullerton, Eric E. ; Zhaowei Liu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We show that nanopatterned hyperbolic metamaterials made of Ag-Si multilayers enhance the spontaneous emission rate of dye molecules by 76-fold at tunable frequencies and the emission intensity by ~80 fold compared to metamaterials without nanostructuring.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; nanopatterning; nanophotonics; optical metamaterials; optical multilayers; optical tuning; semiconductor-metal boundaries; silicon; silver; spontaneous emission; Ag-Si; dye molecules; emission intensity; nanopatterned multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials; spontaneous light emission; tunable frequency; Fluorescence; Hidden Markov models; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical surface waves; Plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
