Time-of-flight photon spectroscopy: A simple scheme to monitor simultaneously spectral and temporal fluctuations of emission on single nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 10512-10523

  Loumaigne, Matthieu ^a   Vasanthakumar, Priya ^b,c   Richard, Alain ^b   Débarre, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brownian rotation; fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; gold nanorod; Raman spectroscopy; single particle luminescence; single particle spectroscopy; spectral fluctuations; time of flight photon spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD NANOROD; SINGLE-PARTICLE; SPECTRAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; NANORODS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871603318     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304842c     Document Type: Article

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