Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence Biosensors: A Review

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 781-799

  Bauch, Martin ^a   Toma, Koji ^a,b   Toma, Mana ^a,b   Zhang, Qingwen ^a,c   Dostalek, Jakub ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Fluorescence; Metal enhanced fluorescence; Plasmon enhanced fluorescence; Plasmonics; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890901144     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9660-5     Document Type: Review

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