Abstract

Previously, we reported the observation of metal enhanced emission from copper nanoparticles. In this letter, we report the observation of surface plasmon coupled fluorescence (SPCF) or emission from thin copper (Cu) continuous films. Using Fresnel calculations to theoretically calculate the reflectance curves for polymethyl methacrylate films doped with sulforhodamine 101, we correlated the minimum reflectance angles for both s- and p-polarized lights with maximum fluorescence emission. These observations reveal that we can achieve SPCF with copper substrates and possibly design inexpensive copper substrates for fluorescent sensing applications and potentially, fluorescent based electrical signals and circuits.

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