Use of aluminum films as substrates for enhanced fluorescence in the ultraviolet-blue spectral region

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6869, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chowdhury, Mustafa H ^a   Ray, Krishanu ^a   Lakowicz, Joseph R ^a  

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

Author keywords

2 aminopurine; Aluminum; Coumarin; Fluorescence; Metal enhanced fluorescence; Plasmon controlled fluorescence; Plasmonics; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

(8 HYDROXY QUINOLINE) ALUMINUM; 2 AMINOPURINE (2AP); ALUMINUM FILMS; ALUMINUM NANOPARTICLES; BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; COUMARIN DERIVATIVES; DNA BASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM AND SEM); EMISSION WAVE LENGTH; ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD-3D); FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT (FE); FLUOROPHORE; IN FLUORESCENCE; ISLAND FILMS; METAL ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE (MEF); NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES; NEAR INFRARED (NIR) WAVELENGTH; PHOTO-STABILITY; PLASMONICS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FILM; QUARTZ SUBSTRATES; SMOOTH SURFACES; SPECTRAL REGIONS; ULTRAVIOLET (UV); WIDESPREAD USE;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON OPTICS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; HEALTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT METALS; LUMINESCENCE; METALLIC FILMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDE MINERALS; PIGMENTS; PRECIOUS METALS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; THERMAL EVAPORATION;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 42149097768     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.760724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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