Aluminum oxide nanostructure-based substrates for fluorescence enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21272-21277

  Li, Xiang ^a   He, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Tianhua ^a   Que, Long ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; FLUORESCENCE; OXIDES; SUBSTRATES;

ALUMINUM OXIDES; ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; COST-EFFECTIVE FABRICATION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; ULTRASENSITIVE FLUORESCENCE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84866236491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021272     Document Type: Article

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