Total internal reflection nanoparticles

Solutions for the scattering of evanescent waves by a sphere were studied initially by Chew et al. in 1979 (68). Evanescent wave is generated from a dielectric/air plane interface due to total internal reflection and is scattered by a dielectric sphere. Quinten et al, on the other hand, derived the total cross section for extinction and scattering of evanescent waves by a small metal particle (69). In these studies, a particle with smaller size is placed away from the plane interface, and therefore the multiple scattering between the sphere and the plane interface is ignored. Quinten s study further supports that the extinction cross section for the extinction of p-polarized evanescent waves by a metallic nanoparticle is larger than that for s-polarized evanescent waves and plane waves. This can be attributed to the... 

Kihm KD, Banerjee A, Choi CK, Takagi T (2004) Near-wall hindered Brownian diffusion of nanoparticles examined by three-dimensional ratiometric total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (3-D R-TIRFM). Exp Fluid 37 811-824... 

Krenn, F. R. Aussenegg, V. Z.-H. Chan, J. P. Spatz and M. Moller, Spectroscopy of single metallic nanoparticles using total internal reflection microscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77(19), 2949-2951 (2000). 

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