On the other hand, we may also change the material properties of the cylinder corner part. The nETR spectra for different materials of the cylinder corner part are displayed in Figure 4d. Here the radius is set to corresponding to the gap widths of g = 10 nm. The cases of material refraction index n = 1.5 and n = 3.4 are displayed together with the case of silver cylinder. We can see that when the material of the cylinder corner is changed, the resonance wavelength and #find more randurls[1|1|,|CHEM1|]# the maximum enhancement in the nETR spectra both vary slightly. The above results imply that the role of the corner part of V-shaped structures in nETR

is minor. Based on this, we may remove the corner part so that the V-shaped structure consists of two nanorod branches only, as GW2580 ic50 shown in Figure 3c. The nETR spectrum in this structure is also displayed in Figure 4d with n = 1; we can see that the resonance wavelength is 1,177 nm with a maximum enhancement of nearly 84,000. This

resonance wavelength is very close to that in the case of single nanorod structure, while the maximum enhancement is ten times higher than the latter. Compared with other V-shaped structures having corner parts, this simple structure is thus more suitable to be applied in practical experiment and applications in integrated photonic devices. In the above discussions, we proposed V-shaped structures with symmetric configuration for donor-dipole pair with symmetric Miconazole dipole directions; the directions of the donor and acceptor dipoles are both aligned to the principle axis of the nanorod branches. In order to further examine the controllability and robustness of these V-shaped structures, we now discuss the RET-enhancing abilities of these structures for donor-dipole pair with asymmetric configuration θ D = 60° and θ A = 30°. Figure 5a displays the nETR spectra in the V-shaped structures

shown in Figure 3a with a sharp corner part, θ 1 = θ 2 = 60°, and different gap widths g, compared with the case of single nanorod. Here we have θ A ≠ θ D and θ A ≠ θ 2; the direction of the acceptor dipole is thus a bit misaligned from the principle axis of the second nanorod branch. Compared with Figure 4a, the nETR in the single nanorod structure increases with a maximum enhancement of 23,300, while the RET-enhancing abilities of the V-shaped structures become weaker. Nevertheless, the nETR spectrum in the V-shaped structures can still be modulated by the lengths of the nanorod branches. The nETR spectrum in the V-shaped structure with a sharp corner part and g = 10 nm still has a maximum enhancement of about 59,000, stronger than that in the single nanorod structure. Figure 5b displays the nETR spectra for V-shaped structures with different corner parts shown in Figure 3 for g = 10 nm and . It can be seen that the RET-enhancing ability of the V-shaped structures is still robust.