Title :
Creating strong single molecule emitter using 3-dimensional plasmonic nano-cavity
Author :
Zhang, Weihua ; Ding, Fei ; Chou, Stephen Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We report strong fluorescence emissions from single IR dye molecules on a novel 3D plasmonic nanoantenna array. The measured emission cross-section is ~1E-13 cm2, 5 orders of magnitude than the value in solution.
Keywords :
antenna arrays; fluorescence; nanophotonics; plasmonics; 3-dimensional plasmonic nano-cavity; 3D plasmonic nanoantenna array; IR dye molecules; emission cross-section; fluorescence emissions; single molecule emitter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6