Spontaneous Emission Control of CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticle Monolayer in Polymer Nanosheet Waveguide Assembled on a One-Dimensional Silver Grating Surface

Abstract

We present spontaneous emission control of a core-shell CdSe/ZnS nanoparticle array assembled with polymer ultrathin films consisting of polymer nanosheets on a silver grating substrate, which served as a unique and simple photonic cavity. The grating-coupled waveguide modes enabled 10(3) order luminescence enhancement and one-fourth spectral narrowing. The light emission from a CdSe/ZnS nanoparticle array can be controlled by tuning the film thickness of hybrid polymer nanoassemblies, which provides multiple emission performance with good tuning ability from red to green at low-power continuous wave laser excitation (∼μW).