Objective-type dark-field illumination for scattering from microbeads

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 5650-56579

  Braslavsky, Ido ^a,d   Amit, Roee ^a   Ali, B M Jaffar ^a,e   Gileadi, Opher ^b   Oppenheim, Amos ^c   Stavans, Joel ^a  

^a Department of Physics of Complex Systems ^*  (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DNA; GOLD; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPES; POLYSTYRENES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MICROBEADS;

LIGHTING;

EID: 0038159959     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005650     Document Type: Article

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