Resonant plasmonic enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence by individual gold nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4440-4449

  Khatua, Saumyakanti ^a   Paulo, Pedro M R ^b   Yuan, Haifeng ^a   Gupta, Ankur ^a   Zijlstra, Peter ^c   Orrit, Michel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

gold nanorods; plasmon enhanced fluorescence; single molecule fluorescence; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; MOLECULES; NANORODS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXCITATION LASERS; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOROD; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCES; STRONG ENHANCEMENT;

FLUOROPHORES;

EID: 84901660491     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406434y     Document Type: Article

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