The decay of an excited molecule near a small metal sphere is considered from the viewpoint of electromagnetic theory. The total decay rate of the emitting dipole is obtained by considering the two mechanisms through which energy is dissipated. One is the radiative loss, which is calculated from the Poynting vector, and the other is the nonradiative decay which is calculated from the Ohmic losses inside the sphere. Numerical computations are performed for the case of a molecule near a small silver sphere, and the results are compared with those for a molecule near the planar boundary of a silver half‐space.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
R. R.
Chance
, A.
Prock
, and R.
Silbey
, J. Chem. Phys.
62
, 2245
(1975
).5.
R. R. Chance, A. Prock, and R. Silbey, Advances in Chemical Physics (Wiley, New York, 1978), Vol. 37, p. 1.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
A.
Adams
, R. W.
Rendell
, W. P.
West
, H. P.
Broida
, P. K.
Hansma
, and H.
Metiu
, Phys. Rev. B
21
, 5565
(1980
).11.
12.
13.
C. F.
Eagen
, W. H.
Weber
, S. L.
McCarthy
, and R. W.
Terhune
, Chem. Phys. Lett.
75
, 274
(1980
).14.
M.
Kerker
, D. S.
Wang
, and H.
Chew
, Appl. Opt.
19
, 4159
(1980
).15.
J. A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory (McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1941).
16.
J. Van Bladel, Electromagnetic Fields (McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1964).
17.
G. N. Watson, A Treatise on the Theory of Bessel Functions (Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1944).
18.
19.
J. A.
Creighton
, C. G.
Blatchford
, and M. G.
Albrecht
, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. II
75
, 790
(1979
).20.
21.
22.
This content is only available via PDF.
© 1982 American Institute of Physics.
1982
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
