Abstract

In this work, we investigate the Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposite Array 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 florescence yield in the former. The experimental findings not only highlight the great benefits in forming the organic-inorganic nano-composite 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.

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