Purcell effect of nanoshell dimer on single molecule's fluorescence

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13532-13540

  Liaw, Jiunn Woei ^a   Chen, Jeng Hong ^b   Chen, Chi San ^b   Kuo, Mao Kuen ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LOW PASS FILTERS; MOLECULES; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXCITED MOLECULES; FAR FIELD; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PURCELL EFFECT; SINGLE MOLECULE; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

DIMERS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 68349135241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013532     Document Type: Article

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