Naphthalene diimides as tunable fluorophores suitable for single molecule applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6444, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bell, Toby D M ^a   Yap, Sheryll ^a   Jani, Chintan ^b   Langford, Steven J ^b   Hofkens, Johan ^c   De Schryver, Frans ^c   Ghiggino, Kenneth P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy transfer; Fluorescence label; Naphthalene diimide; Single molecule fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUOROPHORES; NAPHTHALENE; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOBLEACHING; QUANTUM YIELD; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE LABELS; NAPHTHALENE DIIMIDE; PHOTOPHYSICS; PHOTOSTABILITY;

DYES;

EID: 34247353288     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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