A plasmonic 'antenna-in-box' platform for enhanced single-molecule analysis at micromolar concentrations

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 512-516

  Punj, Deep ^a   Mivelle, Mathieu ^b   Moparthi, Satish Babu ^a   Van Zanten, Thomas S ^b   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Van Hulst, Niek F ^b,c   García Parajó, María F ^b,c   Wenger, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DNA SEQUENCES; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ENCODING; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SCREENING;

FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATION; NANOMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; SINGLE-MOLECULE ANALYSIS; SINGLE-MOLECULE SENSITIVITY;

ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; QUANTUM YIELD; SCREENING;

EID: 84880197160     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.98     Document Type: Article

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