Optical detection of a single rare-earth ion in a crystal

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kolesov, R ^a   Xia, K ^a   Reuter, R ^a   Stohr R ^a   Zappe, A ^a   Meijer, J ^b   Hemmer, P R ^c   Wrachtrup, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LANTHANIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; PRASEODYMIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL DEATH; CRYSTAL; FLUORESCENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE; NANOENGINEERING; PHOTON;

EID: 84866093271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2034     Document Type: Article

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