Dual-Band Plasmonic Enhancement of Ag-NS@SiO2 on Gain Medium's Spontaneous Emission

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 673-680

  Liaw, Jiunn Woei ^a   Liu, Chuan Li ^b   Kuo, Mao Kuen ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Apparent quantum yield; Average enhancement factor; Bonding mode; Dipole mode; Excitation rate; Fluorescence; Forster resonance energy transfer; Nanoshell; Quadrupole mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255124797     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9250-3     Document Type: Article

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