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Surface enhanced fluorescence by metallic nano-apertures associated with stair-gratings
Abstract:
Metallic nano-apertures associated with stair-gratings are proposed for surface enhanced fluorescence with high excitation enhancement and narrow emission beaming effect. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy method was utilized to analyze the fluorescence trace and fluorescence enhancement, and the angular patterns of fluorescent emission were measured with the back focal plane imaging method. The stair-grating presents a strong optical response which covering well both the excitation and the emission bands of the photoluminescence process. Such high enhancement and narrow directionality by the stair-gratings would enable the detection of single molecules with low numerical aperture objective effectively.
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