Surface plasmon polariton enhanced fluorescence from quantum dots on nanostructured metal surfaces

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 813-820

  Hwang, Ehren ^a   Smolyaninov, Igor I ^a   Davis, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced fluorescence; Nano optics; Quantum dots; Surface gratings; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE; NANOOPTICS; QUANTUM DOT; SURFACE GRATING; SURFACE PLASMONS;

FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77949450633     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9031692     Document Type: Article

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