Nanoaperture fluorescence enhancement in the ultraviolet

Plasmonics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-174

  Mahdavi, Farhad ^a   Blair, Steve ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Nanoapertures; Surface plasmons; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952583450     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9126-y     Document Type: Article

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