Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 171-176.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.02.007

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Localized Surface Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence on Silver Nanoclusters

ZHANG Tao1, XU Rong-qing1,2, CHEN Jing2, DENG Bei3   

  1. 1. School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;
    2. College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;
    3. Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
  • Received:2013-10-07 Revised:2013-12-17 Online:2016-03-30 Published:2016-03-30

Abstract: Using low energy cluster beam deposition based on magnetron plasma gas aggregation cluster source, we fabricated silver nanoclusters on a quartz substrate and measured its transmittance spectrum. Then we dispersed SiO2 fluorescent nanospheres separately on bare quartz substrates and quartz substrates with silver nanoclusters. We found that the fluorescence intensity with silver nanoclusters was 5.3 larger than that without silver nanoclusters. Finally, we used the Mie scattering theory to numerically calculate the electric field intensity distributions of a single silver nanosphere where surface plasmon resonance existed. We give a reasonable explanation for the experimental results.

Key words: silver nanocluster, surface plasmon, surface enhanced fluorescence, Mie scattering theory

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