Modeling fluorescence enhancement from metallic nanocavities

Plasmonics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 129-141

  Mahdavi, F ^a   Liu, Y ^b   Blair, S ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b NANOMETRICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Nanocavities; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848860785     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-007-9041-z     Document Type: Article

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