Subpopulation-resolved photon statistics of single-molecule energy transfer dynamics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 990-994

  Nettels, Daniel ^a   Schuler, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Protein folding; Single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 34648851356     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.902848     Document Type: Article

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