Total internal reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (TIR-FCS) with low background and high count-rate per molecule

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7415-7423

  Hassler, Kai ^a   Leutenegger, Marcel ^a   Rigler, Per ^b   Rao, Ramachandra ^a   Rigler, Rudolf ^a   Gösch, Michael ^a   Lasser, Theo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GLASS; LIGHT REFLECTION;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY (FCS); TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 25144466193     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007415     Document Type: Article

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