Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Dimer Antennas for Plasmonic-Enhanced Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection at Micromolar Concentrations

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1099-1107

  Punj, Deep ^a   Regmi, Raju ^a   Devilez, Alexis ^a   Plauchu, Robin ^a   Moparthi, Satish Babu ^a   Stout, Brian ^a   Bonod, Nicolas ^a   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Wenger, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; fluorescence enhancement; gold nanoparticle; nanoantenna; plasmonics; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIMERS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMONICS; SELF ASSEMBLED NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE DETECTION;

NANOANTENNAS;

EID: 84939805317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00152     Document Type: Article

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