Plasmonics in Biology and Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence

Plasmonics - Tập 1 Số 1 - Trang 5-33 - 2006
Joseph R. Lakowicz1
1Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

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