A sensitive and versatile laser scanning confocal optical microscope for single-molecule fluorescence at 77 K

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Hirschfeld, V ^a   Hubner C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; AMORPHOUS WATER; DEWAR VESSEL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; IN-SITU; LASER SCANNING; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; LINESCANNING; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; MODEL SYSTEM; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLYPROLINE; SINGLE-MOLECULE; THIN LAYERS; WORKING DISTANCES;

CRYOSTATS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LIQUID NITROGEN; LIQUIDS; MICROSCOPES; OIL WELL TESTING; SCANNING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

LASER EXCITATION;

NITROGEN; PEPTIDE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYPROLINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PEPTIDES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650272638     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3499260     Document Type: Article

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