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Local-field enhancement of spontaneous decay in nanosystems: some estimations for dielectric particles

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Enhancement of the spontaneous decay rate due to local-field effects is estimated for a luminous dipole inside a small dielectric particle. To do this, we make use of an idea on multiplicativity of the local-field factor. Elongated particles are shown to be promising in respect of the local-field enhancement of the spontaneous emission. Computations are carried out within the framework of modern theory of the spontaneous decay of excited atoms in absorbing media for both the virtual-cavity and real-cavity models. Particular emphasis is placed on dielectric/semiconductor particles in the vicinity of the optical phonon frequencies.

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  1. Center for Superfunctional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea

    A.V. Goncharenko & K.S. Kim

  2. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei, Taiwan, China

    M.M. Dvoynenko

  3. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 45 pr. Nauki, 03028, Kyiv, Ukraine

    A.V. Goncharenko & V.Z. Lozovski

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Goncharenko, A., Dvoynenko, M., Lozovski, V. et al. Local-field enhancement of spontaneous decay in nanosystems: some estimations for dielectric particles. Appl Phys B 79, 863–870 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1617-0

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