Abstract
The biotechnology and medical diagnostics industries could soon benefit from a technique that promises enhanced sensitivity over conventional fluorescence detection methods. As such, surface-plasmon-coupled emission shows promise to expand its chemical and biological sensing applications. Surface plasmons are basically electron oscillations on the surface of metals-or, more specifically, in an interfacial region between a metal and a dielectric medium. Although usually nonradiative, they are the basis of surface plasmon resonance.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 92-94+96-98 |
Volume | 38 |
No | 2 |
Specialist publication | Photonics Spectra |
State | Published - Feb 2004 |