Enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence using a gold nanoparticle as an optical nanoantenna

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Kühn, Sergei ^a   Håkanson, Ulf ^a   Rogobete, Lavinia ^a   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCANNING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY SIMULTANEOUS; PARTICLE PLASMON RESONANCE; SCANNING PROBE TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33745787527     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.017402     Document Type: Article

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