Quantifying the number of color centers in single fluorescent nanodiamonds by photon correlation spectroscopy and Monte Carlo simulation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hui, Yuen Yung ^a   Chang, Yi Ren ^a   Lim, Tsong Shin ^b   Lee, Hsu Yang ^a   Fann, Wunshain ^a,c   Chang, Huan Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; DIAMONDS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEON; PHOTONS; POINT DEFECTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTON IRRADIATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SODIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHTS; CORRECTION FACTORS; DIPOLE ORIENTATIONS; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANODIAMOND; NANODIAMONDS; PHOTON CORRELATIONS; SINGLE PARTICLES;

PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 58149483881     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067867     Document Type: Article

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