Lifetime of an emitting molecule near a partially reflecting surface
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 60 (7), 2744-2748
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1681437
Abstract
A classical treatment of energy transfer in metal insulator systems is presented. The approach involves the calculation of the radiation field of an emitting molecule near a partially reflecting surface. The modification of the image theory result produces a large correction when the molecule is near the surface. This in turn produces a correction to the calculated lifetime of the molecule as a function of distance from the surface that differs substantially from previous theoretical descriptions of this system and brings the theory into good agreement with experiment.Keywords
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