High-efficiency single molecule fluorescence detection and correlation spectroscopy with dielectric microspheres

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7571, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Aouani, Heykel ^a   Djaker, Nadia ^a   Wenger, Jérôme ^a   Rigneault, Hervé ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy FCS; Microsphere; Photonic jet; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE CROSS CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY (FCCS); FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE DETECTION;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 77951691516     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.840041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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