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Plasmonics enhancement of a luminescent or Raman-active layer in a multilayered metallic nanoshell
Stephen J Norton1, Tuan Vo-Dinh
1Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
Abstract:
Expressions for the enhancement of the far-field scattering cross section of a luminescent or Raman-active compound contained within a multilayered nanosphere are derived, where the active compound resides between an outer metallic shell and a metallic core. The quasi-static approximation is assumed for silver and gold particles using a Lorentz-Drude model of the dielectric function. An attempt has also been made to account for the effect of electron scattering from the boundaries of the shell on the enhancement calculation.
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