Thermally activated transitions in a bistable three-dimensional optical trap

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6763, 1999, Pages 785-787

  McCann, Lowell I ^a,b   Dykman, Mark ^a   Golding, Brage ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; NEON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033576722     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45492     Document Type: Article

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