Decay of molecules at spherical surfaces: Nonlocal effects

Decay of molecules at spherical surfaces: Nonlocal effects.

Nonlocal electrodynamic modeling of frequency shifts for molecules at rough surfaces

The problem of frequency shifts for admolecules at distances very close to a metallic substrate surface protrusion is considered. The molecule is modeled as an oscillating point dipole and the morphology of the substrate is represented by a spherical island. Nonlocal electrodynamic effects are taken into account within the hydrodynamic description of the surface electrons. The results show that...

Polygonal tiling of some surfaces containing fullerene molecules

A tiling of a surface is a decomposition of the surface into pieces, i.e. tiles, which cover it without gaps or overlaps. In this paper some special polygonal tiling of sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, and torus as the most abundant shapes of fullerenes are investigated.

Nonlocal optical effects on the fluorescence and decay rates for admolecules at a metallic nanoparticle.

A phenomenological model is implemented to study the decay rates of fluorescing molecules in the vicinity of a metallic nanoparticle, wherein the nonlocal optical response of the particle is accounted for via the hydrodynamic model for the description of the free electrons in the metal. These nonlocal effects are examined for each of the radiative rate and the nonradiative rate of the admolecul...

Nonlocal electrodynamic modeling of fluorescence characteristics for molecules in a spherical cavity

The emission characteristics for molecules in a spherical metallic microcavity are computed using a nonlocal electrodynamic model, based on a theory previously published by Fuchs and Claro @Phys. Rev. B 35, 3722 ~1987!# for the multipole polarizability of a sphere. Both radially and tangentially oriented molecules at arbitrary locations inside the cavity are considered, and the results are comp...