Superresolution by localization of quantum dots using blinking statistics

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7052-7062

  Lidke, Keith A ^a   Rieger, Bernd ^a   Jovin, Thomas M ^a   Heintzmann, Rainer ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

BLINKING STATISTICS; NON-GAUSSIAN TEMPORAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; POINT EMITTERS; SUPERRESOLUTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 24944484744     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007052     Document Type: Article

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