title: Absorption Enhancement in Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein Light-Harvesting Complexes Coupled to Semicontinuous Silver Film.
abstract: We report on experimental and theoretical studies of plasmon-induced effects in a hybrid nanostructure composed of light-harvesting complexes and metallic nanoparticles in the form of semicontinuous silver film. The results of continuous-wave and time-resolved spectroscopy indicate that absorption of the light-harvesting complexes is strongly enhanced upon coupling with the metallic film spaced by 25 nm of a dielectric silica layer. This conclusion is corroborated by modeling, which confirms the morphology of the silver island film.
authors.forename: Nikodem
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Czechowski
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nyga
authors.forename: Mikołaj K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Tatas H P
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Brotosudarmo
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Scheer
authors.forename: Dawid
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Piatkowski
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mackowski