Optical Trapping of Single Fluorescent Molecules at the Detection Spots of Nanoprobes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Calander, Nils ^a   Willander, Magnus ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BIOMOLECULES; BLOCH EQUATION; FLUORESCENT MOLECULE; FLUOROPHORE; OPTICAL TRAPPING; OPTICAL TWEEZER; SINGLE MOLECULE RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENT DYE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PROCEDURES; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; WATER;

EID: 17644434535     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.143603     Document Type: Article

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