Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. lakowicz@cfs.umbi.umd.edu
Abstract:
We report recent achievements in metal-enhanced fluorescence from our laboratory. Several fluorophore systems have been studied on metal particle-coated surfaces and in colloid suspensions. In particular, we describe a distance dependent enhancement on silver island films (SIFs), release of self-quenching of fluorescence near silver particles, and the applications of fluorescence enhancement near metalized surfaces to bioassays. We discuss a number of methods for various shaped silver particle deposition on surfaces.