Surface enhanced fluorescence

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Fort, Emmanuel ^a   Grésillon, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASMA THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

FLUORESCENCE DETECTION EFFICIENCY; NANOMETRE SCALES; NEAR FIELD COUPLING; SURFACE ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE (SEF); VICINITY OF EMITTERS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 38549135118     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/1/013001     Document Type: Article

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