Probing the electromagnetic field of a 15-nanometre hotspot by single molecule imaging

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7330, 2011, Pages 385-388

  Cang, Hu ^a,b   Labno, Anna ^b   Lu, Changgui ^b   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   Liu, Ming ^b   Gladden, Christopher ^b   Liu, Yongmin ^b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FILM; FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HOTSPOT; ILLUMINATION; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

ALUMINUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HOT TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOTION; QUARTZ; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78751672828     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09698     Document Type: Article

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