Engineering metal-nanoantennae/dye complexes for maximum fluorescence enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 22018-22030

  Meng, Xiang ^a   Grote, Richard R ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^b   Osgood, Richard M ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS;

DESIGN PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; MOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLE GEOMETRIES; PLASMONIC DIMERS; RADIATIVE EMISSIONS; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907298127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022018     Document Type: Article

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