High sensitivity optical microscppe for single molecule spectroscopy studies

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2746-2751

  Malengo, Gabriele ^a   Milani, Roberto ^a   Cannone, Fabio ^a   Krol, Silke ^b   Diaspro, Alberto ^b   Chirico, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTODIODES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYELECTROLYTES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTIONS;

INTRACELLULAR KINETICS; PHOTON COUNTING HISTOGRAM (PCH); PHOTON MICROSCOPE; SINGLE MOLECULE MICROSCOPY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 4944238407     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1777385     Document Type: Article

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