Electrodynamic calculations of spontaneous emission coupled to metal nanostructures of arbitrary shape: Nanoantenna-enhanced fluorescence

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1569-1577

  Giannini, Vincenzo ^a   Sánchez Gil, José A ^a   Muskens, Otto L ^b   Rivas, Jaime Gómez ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOLECULES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; NONRADIATIVE DECAY RATE; RADIATIVE DECAY RATES; RESONANT ENHANCEMENTS; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 69049109167     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.001569     Document Type: Article

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