Grafting fluorescent nanodiamonds onto optical tips

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cuche, Aurelien ^a   Drezet, Aurelien ^a   Roch, Jean Francois ^a   Treussart, Francois ^a   Huant, Serge ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

nanodiamonds; near field optics; single photon microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NANODIAMONDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SCANNING;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; FIXED NUMBERS; GRAFTING ONTO; NANO-OBJECTS; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; SCANNING NEAR FIELD; SINGLE PHOTONS;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 80455129550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3374237     Document Type: Article

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