Three central experimental variables are looked at to increase the observed enhancement factor in plasmon-enhanced fluorescence: nanoparticle size, nanoparticle aggregation, and the sample temperature. The rise in emission ...

Metal-organic semiconductor films are fabricated as co-evaporated films. It is demonstrated that the technique can be used to fabricate metal-semiconductor surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) or surface-enhanced ...

Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) is used for single-molecule detection from spatially resolved 1-mum(2) sections of a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer deposited onto a Ag film. The target molecule, his ...

Deciphering the genetic bases that drive animal diversity is one of the major challenges of modern biology. Although four decades ago it was proposed that animal evolution was mainly driven by changes in cis-regulatory DNA ...

OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to explore whether delayed enhancement dual-energy CT (DECT) allows the detection of myocardial infarcts in stable patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS. Patients with known or suspected ...

Nanoplasmonics has recently revolutionized our ability to control light on the nanoscale. Using metallic nanostructures with tailored shapes, it is possible to efficiently focus light into nanoscale field ?hot spots?. High ...