Molecule-dependent plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence and raman scattering near realistic nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9828-9836

  Kern, Andreas M ^a,b   Meixner, Alfred J ^b   Martin, Olivier J F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluorescence enhancement; luminescence; plasmonics; quantum yield; realistic nanostructure; surface roughness; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; REALISTIC GEOMETRY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); TRANSITION RATES;

LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM YIELD; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

FLUORESCENCE;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870444843     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3033612     Document Type: Article

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