Biosensing with luminescent semiconductor quantum dots

Sensors

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 925-953

  Sapsford, Kim E ^a,b   Pons, Thomas ^a,c   Medintz, Igor L ^a   Mattoussi, Hedi ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Biosensor; Detection; DNA; Fluorescence; FRET; Immunoassay; Nanocrystal; Probe; Quantum dot

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOASSAY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSENSORS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; ERROR DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTODEGRADATION; PROBES;

BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FRET; IMMUNOASSAY; LUMINESCENT SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENT EMISSION; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34248223679     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s6080925     Document Type: Article

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