In situ diagnostics of the crystalline nature of single organic nanocrystals by nonlinear microscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Brasselet, Sophie ^a   FloC'H, Véronique Le ^a   Treussart, François ^a   Roch, Jean François ^a   Zyss, Joseph ^a   Botzung Appert, Estelle ^b   Ibanez, Alain ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOL-GELS;

NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR MOLECULES; SINGLE ORGANIC NANOCRYSTALS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE (TPF);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 18344417966     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.207401     Document Type: Article

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