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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.
Chance et al. (1974) studied this question.