Large molecular fluorescence enhancement by a nanoaperture with plasmonic corrugations

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13056-13062

  Aouani, Heykel ^a   Mahboub, Oussama ^b   Devaux, Elöise ^b   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^b   Wenger, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CORRUGATION; COUNT RATES; EMISSION DIRECTIONALITY; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; MOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE; NANO-APERTURES; PLASMONIC;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959892613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013056     Document Type: Article

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