STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 144-147

  Rittweger, Eva ^a   Han, Kyu Young ^a   Irvine, Scott E ^a   Eggeling, Christian ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMETRIC RESOLUTION; NANOSCALE RESOLUTIONS; NITROGEN VACANCIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; STED MICROSCOPIES; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH OF LIGHT;

COLOR CENTERS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; VACANCIES;

STIMULATED EMISSION;

EID: 61449201752     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.2     Document Type: Article

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