Plasmonic nanoparticles can strongly interact with adjacent fluorophores, resulting in
plasmon-enhanced fluorescence or fluorescence quenching. This dipolar coupling is …

We computationally explore how the orientation of dipolar emitters placed near plasmonic
nanostructures affects their radiative enhancement and spontaneous emission rate. We …

The assemblies of metal nanoparticles, thanks to their intriguing plasmonic properties, have
provided numerous opportunities for manipulating light at the nanoscale. Driven by the …

Optical detection of single molecules mostly relies on their fluorescence because of the high
contrast of this technique against the background. Since their invention in the early 1990s …

We report a comprehensive experimental study of the polarization dependence between
excitation and photoluminescence (PL) emission from single dolmen-like metallic …

Engineered metallic nanostructures, namely, plasmonic nanostructures, have broad
application prospects. Herein, we develop a versatile and reliable method, which combines …

Chiroptical spectroscopies like circular dichroism report on the handedness of molecules but
are often limited to the high-concentration regime because of the mismatch between the …

Plasmonic structures are known to affect the fluorescence properties of dyes placed in close
proximity. This effect has been exploited in combination with single-molecule techniques for …

We perform a theoretical investigation of individual and coupled gold nanorods as
plasmonic nanosensors using the finite-difference time-domain method. Key features of …

The coupled plasmonic modes of noble metal nanoparticles are of interest in fields spanning
chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology. We systematically investigated the near …