Plasmon-Enhanced Photoluminescence of SiC Quantum Dots for Cell Imaging Applications

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 725-732

  Zakharko, Yuriy ^a   Serdiuk, Tetiana ^b,c   Nychyporuk, Tetyana ^a   Géloën, Alain ^b   Lemiti, Mustapha ^a   Lysenko, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Cell imaging; Local field enhancement; Plasmon enhanced emission; Quantum dots; SiC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868546766     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9364-2     Document Type: Article

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