Ground-state depletion microscopy: Detection sensitivity of single-molecule optical absorption at room temperature

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 3316-3322

  Chong, Shasha ^a   Min, Wei ^a,b   Xie, X Sunney ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SIGNALS; AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; BROAD APPLICATION; CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER BEAM; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DIRECT DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH FREQUENCY; LIMITED SENSITIVITY; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL STUDY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAMPLE SCATTERING; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE SENSITIVITY; ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION;

ABSORPTION; CHROMOPHORES; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULES;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 78649917178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz1014289     Document Type: Article

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