Optical detection of single molecules

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 26, Issue , 1997, Pages 567-596

  Nie, Shuming ^a   Zare, Richard N ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; DNA; Fluorescence; Molecular motors; Near field optics

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICS; PROTEINS;

EID: 0030957271     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.26.1.567     Document Type: Review

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