Radiative Decay Engineering

Chris D. Geddes Ph.D., is an assistant professor, and Director of the Institute of Fluorescence, at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Medical Biotechnology Center, in Baltimore. He has a B.Sc. from Lancaster University in England and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry (fluorescence spectroscopy) from the University of Wales Swansea. He is the editor of the Journal of Fluorescence, Who's Who in Fluorescence, and Annual Reviews in Fluorescence. He is also executive director of the Society of Fluorescence. Dr Geddes has published numerous papers, review articles and book chapters etc, on the Principles and Applications of Fluorescence. Dr. Joseph R. Lakowicz is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Dr. Lakowicz has published over 400 scientific articles, has edited numerous books, holds 16 issued patents, and is the sole author of the widely used text, Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, also published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, now in its 2nd Edition.

• Preparation of Noble Metal Colloids and Selected Structures.- Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy: Alternative Modes of Use for NSOM Probes.- Nanoparticles with Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances.- Colloid Surface Chemistry.- Bioanalytical Sensing Using Noble Metal Colloids.- Theory of Fluorophore-Metallic Surface Interactions.- Surface-Enhancement of Fluorescence Near Noble Metal Nanostructures.- Time Resolved Fluorescence Measurements of Fluorophores Close to Metal Nanoparticles.- Copper-Coated Self-Assembled Monolayers: Alkanethiols and Prospective Molecular Wires.- Principles and Applications of Surface-Plasmon Field-Enhanced Fluorescence Techniques.- Optically Detectable Colloidal Metal Labels: Properties, Methods, and Biomedical Applications.- Noble Metal Nanoparticle Biosensors.- Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission: A New Method for Sensitive Fluorescence Detection.- Radiative Decay Engineering (RDE).

From the reviews of the first edition: "The editors have succeeded in producing a timely and interesting compilation of chapters written by experts in their respective areas and in providing excellent historical perspective and technological breadth to important current strategies and applications within the emerging field of plasmonics. ... Radiative Decay Engineering is a unique, single source outlining recent developments in this exciting field ... . This book will prove extremely useful as a reference for scientists and engineers already engaged in research involving fluorophore-metal interactions ... ." (Gary A. Baker, JACS, Vol. 128 (36), 2006)