Authors: JiunnWoei Liaw ChuanLi Liu MaoKuen Kuo
Publish Date: 2011/07/19
Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 673-
Abstract
We present a theoretical study on plasmonic enhancement of molecular fluorescence near a nanocomposite Ag nanoshell AgNS coated by a gain medium of moleculedoped SiO2 layer We use an average enhancement factor AEF which considers contributions from all possible orientations and locations of molecules in the silica layer to estimate the overall performance of AgNSSiO2 at specific excitation and emission wavelengths Our results on the AEF reveal that AgNSSiO2 is a dualband enhancer on the spontaneous emission of the gain medium one is a narrowband in a shorter wavelength regime quadrupole mode and the other is a broadband in a longer wavelength regime dipole mode These two bands are tunable by adjusting the core size and the thickness of the Ag shell Due to this merit AgNSSiO2 has great potentials to enhance Forster resonance energy transfer between a donor and a corresponding acceptor with large Stokes shifts
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