10000 times volume reduction for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using nano-antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20597-20602

  Estrada, Laura C ^a,b   Aramendía, Pedro F ^a,b   Martínez, Oscar E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NEAR-FIELD FLUORESCENCE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SAMPLE CONCENTRATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NANOANTENNAS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 57349096431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020597     Document Type: Article

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