Large Fluorescence Enhancements of Fluorophore Ensembles with Multilayer Plasmonic Substrates: Comparison of Theory and Experimental Results.

Multilayer substrates consisting of a glass slide, silver mirror, silica layer, and silver nanoparticles were fabricated using magnetron sputtering. This new geometry of substrates with backplane mirror and dielectric photonic cavity produced large average fluorescence enhancements up to 190-fold. Fluorescence enhancements of five fluorescent probes were measured over the broad spectral range from 470 to 800 nm.

Bimetallic Nanoshells for Metal - Enhanced Fluorescence with Broad Band Fluorophores.

In this article, we reported the near-field interactions between the Ru(bpy)(3) (2+) complexes and plasmon resonances from the bimetallic nanoshells. The metallic nanoshells were fabricated on 20 nm silica spheres as cores by depositing 10 nm monometallic or bimetallic shells. There were approx.

Metal-enhanced intrinsic fluorescence of nucleic acids using platinum nanostructured substrates.

We investigated the feasibility of using platinum nanostructures to accomplish the metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) in the UV spectral region. We examine the possibility for detection of the intrinsic fluorescence from nucleotides and G-quadruplex DNA on platinum nanoparticles. Guanosine monophosphate (GMP) showed significant increases (~20-fold) in fluorescence intensities in the presence of platinum nanostructures when compared to quartz controls.