Confining the sampling volume for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using a sub-wavelength sized aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 956-969

  Leutenegger, Marcel ^a   Gösch, Michael ^a   Perentes, Alexandre ^a   Hoffmann, Patrik ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a   Lasser, Theo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CONFOCAL INSTRUMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY (FCS); FLUORESCENCE FLUCTUATION SPECTROSCOPY (FFS); MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATIONS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 31144439832     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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