Fluorescence enhancement from individual plasmonic gap resonances

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3309-3317

  Schmelzeisen, Marcus ^a   Zhao, Yi ^a   Klapper, Markus ^a   Müllen, Klaus ^a   Kreiter, Maximilian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrimer; Gap resonance; Localized plasmon; Nanoparticles; Perylene; Single objects; Sphere on plane; Strong coupling; Surface enhanced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

GAP RESONANCE; LOCALIZED PLASMONS; PERYLENES; SINGLE OBJECT; STRONG COUPLING; SURFACE-ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE;

DENDRIMERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASMONS; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SPHERES;

SILVER;

FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

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

FLUORESCENT DYES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77955914255     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901655v     Document Type: Article

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