Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 654-657

  Kinkhabwala, Anika ^a   Yu, Zongfu ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Avlasevich, Yuri ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Moerner, W E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; ENHANCED LOCAL FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; NANO-SCALE OBJECTS; RADIATIVE EMISSIONS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCES;

FLUORESCENCE;

MOLECULES;

EID: 70350776376     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.187     Document Type: Article

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