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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Opt Soc Am B. 2007 Sep 1;24(9):2259–2267. doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002259

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

Normalized scattered emission distribution for a vertical fluorophore (oriented along the z axis) at different distances, s, from the surface of a d=80 nm silver nanoparticle calculated using FDTD. A distance of s=20 nm (bold) shows the highest degree of backscattering.