Excitation of Broadband Surface Plasmons with Dye Molecules

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-312

  Zhang, Douguo ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Yi, Mingfang ^a   Wang, Xiangxian ^a   Chen, Yikai ^a   Wang, Pei ^a   Lu, Yonghua ^a   Yao, Peijun ^a   Ming, Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Leakage radiation microscopy; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864080073     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9308-2     Document Type: Article

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