Plasmonics in biology and plasmon-controlled fluorescence

Plasmonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-33

  Lakowicz, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Metal enhanced fluorescence; Nanofabrication; Nanotechnology; Plasmonics; Radiative decay engineering; Surface plasmons; Time resolved fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746047092     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-005-9002-3     Document Type: Review

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