Silver nanostructures for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: Reduced volumes and increased signal intensities

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 2915-2919

  Dutta Choudhury, Sharmistha ^a,b   Ray, Krishanu ^a   Lakowicz, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RELEVANT REACTIONS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES; TOPDOWN;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84867178482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301229m     Document Type: Article

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