Single-molecule sensitivity in optical absorption at room temperature

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 3323-3327

  Kukura, Philipp ^a,b   Celebrano, Michele ^a   Renn, Alois ^a   Sandoghdar, Vahid ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; CONDENSED MATTER; EXISTING METHOD; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; SINGLE-MOLECULE SENSITIVITY;

ABSORPTION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 78649980415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz101426x     Document Type: Article

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