Crucial role of the adhesion layer on the plasmonic fluorescence enhancement

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2043-2048

  Aouani, Heykel ^a   Wenger, Jérôme ^a   Gérard, Davy ^a,d   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Devaux, Eloïse ^b   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^b   Mahdavi, Farhad ^c   Xu, Tingjun ^c   Blair, Steve ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Fluorescence enhancement; Metal nanoapertures; Nanoantennas; Nanofabrication; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; NANOANTENNAS; NANOFABRICATION; PLASMONICS;

ADHESION; CHROMIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS; TITANIUM;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 68649118647     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900460t     Document Type: Article

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