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Cheerala VSK, Ganesh KM, Bhaskar S, Ramamurthy SS, Neelakantan SC. Smartphone-Based Attomolar Cyanide Ion Sensing Using Au-Graphene Oxide Cryosoret Nanoassembly and Benzoxazolium-Based Fluorophore in a Surface Plasmon-Coupled Enhanced Fluorescence Interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023. [PMID: 37228180 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Photoplasmonic platforms are being demonstrated as excellent means for bridging nanochemistry and biosensing approaches at advanced interfaces, thereby augmenting the sensitivity and quantification of the desired analytes. Although resonantly coupled electromagnetic waves at the surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE) interface are investigated with myriad nanomaterials in order to boost the detection limits, rhodamine moieties are ubiquitously used as SPCE reporter molecules in spite of their well-known limitations. In order to overcome this constraint, in this work, a benzoxazolium-based fluorescent molecule, (E)-2-(4-(dimethylamino)styryl)-3-methylbenzo[d]oxazol-3-ium iodide (DSBO), was synthesized to selectively detect the cyanide (CN-) ions in water samples. To this end, the sensitivity of the fabricated SPCE substrates is tested in spacer, cavity, and extended cavity nanointerfaces to rationalize the configurational robustness. The performance of the sensor is further improved with the careful engineering of gold (Au)-graphene oxide (GO) cryosoret nanoassemblies fabricated via an adiabatic cooling technology. The unique dequenching (turn-on) of the quenched (turn-off) fluorescent signal is demonstrated with the hybridized metal-π plasmon synergistic coupling in the nanovoids and nanocavities assisting delocalized Bragg and localized Mie plasmons. The spectro-plasmonic analysis yielded highly directional, polarized (>95%), and enhanced emission attributes with an attomolar limit of detection of 10 aM of CN- ions with high linearity (R2 = 0.996) and excellent reliability, in addition to an exceptional correlation with the theoretically obtained TFclac simulations. The CN- ion sensing is experimentally validated with the smartphone-based cost-effective SPCE detection technology to render the device amenable to resource-limited settings. We believe that the unique fluorophore-cryosoret nanoassemblage presented here encourages development of frugal, unconventional, and highly desirable strategies for the selective quantitation of environmentally and physiologically relevant analytes at trace concentrations for use in point-of-care diagnostics.
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- Vijay Sai Krishna Cheerala
- Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Brindavan Campus, Kadugodi, Bengaluru 560067, India
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- STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, Puttaparthi, Anantapur 515134, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (HMNTL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, Puttaparthi, Anantapur 515134, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Brindavan Campus, Kadugodi, Bengaluru 560067, India
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Paul P, Karar M, Mondal B, Roy UK, Ghosh A, Majumdar T, Mallick A. Controlled tuning of radiative-nonradiative transition via solvent perturbation: Franck-Condon emission vs. aggregation caused quenching. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18245-18254. [PMID: 35876115 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02305a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Organic molecules with tunable fluorescence quantum yield are attractive for opto-electronic applications. A fluorophore with tunable fluorescence quantum yield should be a better choice for a variety of applications that demand fluorophores with different quantum yields. Here organic emitters with a continuous bell-shaped fluorescence yield profile would be promising in view of sustainability and reusability; however, fluorophores with these properties are rarely reported. A bis-indole derivative, 3,3'-bisindolyl(phenyl)methane (BIPM), was synthesised and found to undergo a unique 'rise-and-fall' profile in fluorescence yield with a compositional change of the 1,4-dioxane (DiOx)-H2O solvent system. A predominant interplay of two contrasting factors, (a) polarity and proticity induced emission enhancement and (b) aggregation caused fluorescence quenching, on either side of a crossover solvent composition (∼50% fW), resulted in a continuous bell-patterned fluorescence yield profile. Interestingly, these two factors could be observed individually or simultaneously by adjusting the H2O fraction. Detailed spectroscopic, electron microscopic and computational studies have been performed to substantiate the photophysics behind the solvent regulated modulation of fluorescence quantum yield.
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- Provakar Paul
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, 741235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, 741235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, 713340, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, 713340, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, 741235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, 713340, India
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Bhaskar S, Singh AK, Das P, Jana P, Kanvah S, Bhaktha B N S, Ramamurthy SS. Superior Resonant Nanocavities Engineering on the Photonic Crystal-Coupled Emission Platform for the Detection of Femtomolar Iodide and Zeptomolar Cortisol. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:34323-34336. [PMID: 32597162 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c07515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Although luminescence spectroscopy has been a promising sensing technology with widespread applications in point-of-care diagnostics and chem-bio detection, it fundamentally suffers from low signal collection efficiency, considerable background noise, poor photostability, and intrinsic omnidirectional emission properties. In this regard, surface plasmon-coupled emission, a versatile plasmon-enhanced detection platform with >50% signal collection efficiency, high directionality, and polarization has previously been explored to amplify the limit of detection of desired analytes. However, high Ohmic loss in metal-dependent plasmonic platforms has remained an inevitable challenge. Here, we develop a hybrid nanocavity interface on a template-free and loss-less photonic crystal-coupled emission (PCCE) platform by the quintessential integration of high refractive index dielectric Nd2O3 "Huygens sources" and sharp-edged silver nanoprisms (NPrs). While efficient forward light scattering characteristics of Nd2O3 nanorods (NRs) present 460-fold emission enhancements in PCCE, the tunable localized plasmon resonances of NPrs display high electromagnetic field confinement at sharp nanotips and protrusions, boosting the enhancements 947-fold. The judicious use of silver NPr (AgNPr) metal-Nd2O3 dielectric hybrid resonances in conjugation with surface-trapped Bloch surface waves of the one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPhC) displayed unprecedented >1300-fold enhancements. The experimental results are validated by excellent correlations with numerical calculations. The multifold hotspots generated by zero and nonzero nanogaps between the coassembly of NPrs, NRs, and 1DPhCs are used for (i) determination of hyper and hypothyroidism levels through monitoring the concentration of iodide (I-) ions and (ii) single-molecule detection (zeptomolar) of the stress hormone, cortisol, through the synthesized cortisol-rhodamine B conjugate obtained using a simple esterification reaction.
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- Seemesh Bhaskar
- STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh 515134, India
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- STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh 515134, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 382355, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 382355, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh 515134, India
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Kohr E, Karawdeniya BI, Dwyer JR, Gupta A, Euler WB. A comparison of SERS and MEF of rhodamine 6G on a gold substrate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:27074-27080. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp05569b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Multilayer films of rhodamine 6G can act as its own dielectric layer on gold surfaces to enhance emission spectra.
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- Elizabeth Kohr
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Rhode Island
- Kingston
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Rhode Island
- Kingston
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Institute Hall
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rochester
- USA
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Sergiienko S, Moor K, Gudun K, Yelemessova Z, Bukasov R. Nanoparticle–nanoparticle vs. nanoparticle–substrate hot spot contributions to the SERS signal: studying Raman labelled monomers, dimers and trimers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:4478-4487. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08254h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We used a combination of Raman microscopy, AFM and TEM to quantify the influence of dimerization (and trimerisation to some extend) on the SERS signal for gold and silver nanoparticles modified with Raman reporters and situated on Au, Ag, Al films and Si wafer.
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- Sergii Sergiienko
- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- Astana 010000
- Kazakhstan
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- Astana 010000
- Kazakhstan
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- Astana 010000
- Kazakhstan
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- Astana 010000
- Kazakhstan
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- Department of Chemistry
- School of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- Astana 010000
- Kazakhstan
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Dutta Choudhury S, Badugu R, Lakowicz JR. Directing fluorescence with plasmonic and photonic structures. Acc Chem Res 2015; 48:2171-80. [PMID: 26168343 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Fluorescence technology pervades all areas of chemical and biological sciences. In recent years, it is being realized that traditional fluorescence can be enriched in many ways by harnessing the power of plasmonic or photonic structures that have remarkable abilities to mold the flow of optical energy. Conventional fluorescence is omnidirectional in nature, which makes it difficult to capture the entire emission. Suitably designed emission directivity can improve collection efficiency and is desirable for many fluorescence-based applications like sensing, imaging, single molecule spectroscopy, and optical communication. By incorporating fluorophores in plasmonic or photonic substrates, it is possible to tailor the optical environment surrounding the fluorophores and to modify the spatial distribution of emission. This promising approach works on the principle of near-field interaction of fluorescence with spectrally overlapping optical modes present in the substrates. In this Account, we present our studies on directional emission with different kinds of planar metallic, dielectric, and hybrid structures. In metal-dielectric substrates, the coupling of fluorescence with surface plasmons leads to directional surface-plasmon-coupled emission with characteristic dispersion and polarization properties. In one-dimensional photonic crystals (1DPC), fluorophores can interact with Bloch surface waves, giving rise to sharply directional Bloch surface wave-coupled emission. The interaction of fluorescence with Fabry-Pérot-like modes in metal-dielectric-metal substrates and with Tamm states in plasmonic-photonic hybrid substrates provides beaming emission normal to the substrate surface. These interesting features are explained in the context of reflectivity dispersion diagrams, which provide a complete picture of the mode profiles and the corresponding coupled emission patterns. Other than planar substrates, specially fabricated plasmonic nanoantennas also have tremendous potential in controlling and steering fluorescence beams. Some representative studies by other research groups with various nanoantenna structures are described. While there are complexities to near-field interactions of fluorescence with plasmonic and photonic structures, there are also many exciting possibilities. The routing of each emission wavelength along a specific direction with a given angular width and polarization will allow spatial and spectral multiplexing. Directional emission close to surface normal will be particularly useful for microscopy and array-based studies. Application-specific angular emission patterns can be obtained by varying the design parameters of the plasmonic/photonic substrates in a flexible manner. We anticipate that the ability to control the flow of emitted light in the nanoscale will lead to the development of a new generation of fluorescence-based assays, instrumentation, portable diagnostics, and emissive devices.
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- Center
for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- Center
for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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Abdellaoui N, Pereira A, Berthelot A, Moine B, Blanchard NP, Pillonnet A. Plasmonic enhancement of Eu:Y2O3 luminescence by Al percolated layer. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 26:095701. [PMID: 25670641 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/9/095701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The coupling between Eu(3+) rare earth emitters and Al has been investigated in multilayer structures, which consist of an Eu:Y2O3 phosphor film deposited between percolated and continuous Al films. Passive buffer Y2O3 layers were deposited between phosphor and Al films with different thicknesses to analyze the role of the Eu-Al distance on the nanostructuration and emission of the Eu:Y2O3 film. By using Eu(3+) emitters as local structural probes completed by transmission electron microscopy analyses, we show that the deposition on Al promotes the growth of the cubic crystallites. A fluorescence analysis allows us to evaluate the presence of a perturbed structural shell around the cubic core of the crystallites. Moreover, the enhancement observed at short distances is attributed to the localized plasmon resonance of the percolated upper Al film.
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- N Abdellaoui
- ILM- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5306, Villeurbanne F-69622, France
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Choudhury SD, Badugu R, Ray K, Lakowicz JR. Directional Emission from Metal-Dielectric-Metal Structures: Effect of Mixed Metal Layers, Dye Location and Dielectric Thickness. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2015; 119:3302-3311. [PMID: 25844110 PMCID: PMC4381343 DOI: 10.1021/jp512174w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) structures provide directional emission close to the surface normal, which offers opportunities for new design formats in fluorescence based applications. The directional emission arises due to near-field coupling of fluorophores with the optical modes present in the MDM substrate. Reflectivity simulations and dispersion diagrams provide a basic understanding of the mode profiles and the factors that affect the coupling efficiency and the spatial distribution of the coupled emission. This work reveals that the composition of the metal layers, the location of the dye in the MDM substrate and the dielectric thickness are important parameters that can be chosen to tune the color of the emission wavelength, the angle of observation, the angular divergence of the emission and the polarization of the emitted light. These features are valuable for displays and optical signage.
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- Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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Yang ZY, Chen KP. Effective absorption enhancement in dielectric thin-films with embedded paired-strips gold nanoantennas. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:12737-12749. [PMID: 24921469 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.012737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This study focuses on determining the optimized thickness of an absorbing thin-film with embedded gold nanoantennas, for absorption enhancement. Gold paired-strips nanoantennas with small gaps have been proposed for light trapping because of the high localized electric field in the gap due to resonance. Paired-strips nanoantennas with small gaps produce higher effective absorption compared to single-strip gratings. From the average absorption two-dimensional map, the absorption enhancement may increase by a factor of up to 20 for gold paired-strips nanoantennas embedded in a 100 nm thick P3HT:PCBM thin-film.
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Badugu R, Descrovi E, Lakowicz JR. Radiative decay engineering 7: Tamm state-coupled emission using a hybrid plasmonic-photonic structure. Anal Biochem 2014; 445:1-13. [PMID: 24135654 PMCID: PMC4127489 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2013] [Revised: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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There is a continuing need to increase the brightness and photostability of fluorophores for use in biotechnology, medical diagnostics, and cell imaging. One approach developed during the past decade is to use metallic surfaces and nanostructures. It is now known that excited state fluorophores display interactions with surface plasmons, which can increase the radiative decay rates, modify the spatial distribution of emission, and result in directional emission. One important example is surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE). In this phenomenon, the fluorophores at close distances from a thin metal film, typically silver, display emission over a small range of angles into the substrate. A disadvantage of SPCE is that the emission occurs at large angles relative to the surface normal and at angles that are larger than the critical angle for the glass substrate. The large angles make it difficult to collect all of the coupled emission and have prevented the use of SPCE with high-throughput and/or array applications. In the current article, we describe a simple multilayer metal-dielectric structure that allows excitation with light that is perpendicular (normal) to the plane and provides emission within a narrow angular distribution that is normal to the plane. This structure consists of a thin silver film on top of a multilayer dielectric Bragg grating, with no nanoscale features except for the metal or dielectric layer thicknesses. Our structure is designed to support optical Tamm states, which are trapped electromagnetic modes between the metal film and the underlying Bragg grating. We used simulations with the transfer matrix method to understand the optical properties of Tamm states and localization of the modes or electric fields in the structure. Tamm states can exist with zero in-plane wavevector components and can be created without the use of a coupling prism. We show that fluorophores on top of the metal film can interact with the Tamm state under the metal film and display Tamm state-coupled emission (TSCE). In contrast to SPCE, the Tamm states can display either S or P polarization. The TSCE angle is highly sensitive to wavelength, which suggests the use of Tamm structures to provide both directional emission and wavelength dispersion. Metallic structures can modify fluorophore decay rates but also have high losses. Photonic crystals have low losses but may lack the enhanced light-induced fields near metals. The combination of plasmonic and photonic structures offers the opportunity for radiative decay engineering to design new formats for clinical testing and other fluorescence-based applications.
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- Ramachandram Badugu
- Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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