Chris D. Geddes 
Surface Plasmon Enhanced, Coupled and Controlled Fluorescence 

Explains the principles and current thinking behind plasmon enhanced Fluorescence

* Describes the current developments in Surface Plasmon Enhanced, Coupled and Controlled Fluorescence

* Details methods used to understand solar energy conversion, detect and quantify DNA more quickly and accurately, and enhance the timeliness and accuracy of digital immunoassays

* Contains contributions by the world’s leading scientists in the area of fluorescence and plasmonics

* Describes detailed experimental procedures for developing both surfaces and nanoparticles for applications in metal-enhanced fluorescence

Table of Content

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1: Plasmonic-Fluorescent and Magnetic-Fluorescent Composite Nanoparticle as Multifunctional Cellular Probe

Chapter 2: Compatibility of metal-induced fluorescence enhancement with applications in analytical chemistry and biosensing

Chapter 3: Plasmonic enhancement of molecules-doped coreshell and nanoshell on molecular fluorescence

Chapter4: Controlling Metal Enhanced Fluorescence using Bimetallic Nanoparticles

Chapter 5: Roles of surface plasmon polaritons in fluorescence enhancement

Chapter 6: Fluorescence excitation, decay and energy transfer in the vicinity of thin dielectric-metal-dielectric layers near their Surface Plasmon Polariton cut-off frequency

Chapter 7: Metal-enhanced Fluorescence in Biosensing Applications

Chapter 8: Long Range Metal Enhanced Fluorescence

Chapter 9: Evolution, stabilization and stimulated metal enhanced fluorescence in aqueous solution

Chapter 10: Distance and location dependent SPR-enhanced photoluminescence in tailored nanostructures. Professor Dong Ha Kim. dhkim@ewha.ac.kr

Chapter11: Fluorescence Quenching by Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles

Chapter 12: Ag Ox Thin Film for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Chapter 13: Plasmon Enhanced Two-photon Excitation Fluorescence and Biomedical Applications

Chapter 14: Fluorescence biosensors utilizing grating-assisted plasmonic amplification

Chapter 15: Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission (SPCE): Emerging paradigms and challenges for bio-application

Chapter 16: Plasmon enhanced luminescence with shell-isolated nanoparticles

Chapter 17: Controlled and enhanced fluorescence using plasmonic nanocavities

Chapter 18: Plasmonic Enhancement of UV Fluorescence

Index

About the author

Chris D. Geddes, Ph D, FRSC, is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, where he is the director of the Institute of Fluorescence, and the editor-in-chief of both the Journal of Fluorescence and the Plasmonics journal. With more than 250 papers, 35 books, and >100 patents to his credit, he has extensive expertise in fluorescence spectroscopy, particularly in fluorescence sensing and metal-fluorophore interactions.