Photon counting and timing detector modules for single-molecule spectroscopy and DNA analysis

Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 70-71

  Cova, S ^a   Ghioni, M ^a   Rech, I ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; DNA; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUENCHING; SILICON;

FULL-WIDTH-AT-HALF-MAXIMUM (FWHM); PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPAD); SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 14244268132     PISSN: 10928081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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