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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces. 2008 Jul 31;112(30):11236–11249. doi: 10.1021/jp802414k

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic diagram of the model radiating fluorophore/metal nanoparticle system studied. The red arrow represents the fluorophore, in the systems investigated, the fluorophores will be oriented along either the x or y axes, d is the diameter of the silver nanoparticle, s is the surface to surface distance between dimers (and in the case of the monomerssthe space between the fluorophore and the surface of the particle), θ is the polar angle from the z-axis, where 0 ≤ θ ≤ π, and Φ is the azimuthal angle in the x-y plane from the x-axis with 0 ≤ Φ < 2π.