High-resolution imaging of single fluorescent molecules with the optical near-field of a metal tip

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Frey, Heinrich G ^a   Witt, Susanne ^a   Felderer, Karin ^a   Guckenberger, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DYES; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MACROMOLECULES; PHOTODIODES; QUENCHING; RESONANCE;

DIPOLE MOMENTS; FLUOROPHORE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR); QUENCHING EFFECTS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 17644392579     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.200801     Document Type: Article

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