Spheroidal nanoparticles as nanoantennas for fluorescence enhancement

International Journal of Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 902-914

  Mohammad, A ^a   Kaminski, F ^b,c   Sandoghdar, V ^b   Agio, M ^b  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

FDTD methods; Fluorescence; Nanoparticles; Plasmon resonance; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; NANO-SPHEROIDS; NEAR-IR; PLASMON RESONANCES; POLARISABILITY; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; SPECTRAL POSITION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 68749103687     PISSN: 14757435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijnt.2009.027554     Document Type: Article

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