title: Preparation of plasmonic platforms of silver wires on gold mirrors and their application to surface enhanced fluorescence.
abstract: In this report we describe a preparation of silver wires (SWs) on gold mirrors and its application to surface enhanced fluorescence (SEF) using a new methodology. Silica protected gold mirrors were drop-coated with a solution of silver triangular nanoprisms. The triangular nanoprisms were slowly air-dried to get silver wires that self-assembled on the gold mirrors. Fluorescence enhancement was studied using methyl azadioxatriangulenium chloride (Me-ADOTA · Cl) dye in PVA spin-coated on a clean glass coverslip. New Plasmonic Platforms (PPs) were assembled by placing a mirror with SWs in contact with a glass coverslip spin-coated with a uniform Me-ADOTA · Cl film. It was shown that surface enhanced fluorescence is a real phenomenon, not just an enhancement of the fluorescence signal due to an accumulation of the fluorophore on rough nanostructure surfaces. The average fluorescence enhancement was found to be about 15-fold. The lifetime of Me-ADOTA · Cl dye was significantly reduced (∼ 4 times) in the presence of SWs. Moreover, fluorescence enhancement and lifetime did not show any dependence on the excitation light polarization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Tyler , 3900 University Boulevard, Tyler, Texas 75799, United States.
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shtoyko
authors.forename: Sangram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raut
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rich
authors.forename: Randy J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Sronce
authors.forename: Rafal
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fudala
authors.forename: Rachel N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Akopova
authors.forename: Zygmunt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gryczynski
authors.forename: Ignacy
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gryczynski
mesh_terms: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D053770:Nanowires / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012834:Silver; D006046:Gold
keywords: fluorescence lifetime imaging; metal-enhanced fluorescence; photonics; plasmonic platform