Molecular-sized fluorescent nanodiamonds

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-58

  Vlasov, Igor I ^a   Shiryaev, Andrey A ^b   Rendler, Torsten ^c   Steinert, Steffen ^c   Lee, Sang Yun ^c   Antonov, Denis ^c   Vörös, Márton ^d   Jelezko, Fedor ^e   Fisenko, Anatolii V ^f   Semjonova, Lubov F ^f   Biskupek, Johannes ^e   Kaiser, Ute ^e   Lebedev, Oleg I ^g   Sildos, Ilmo ^h   Hemmer, Philip R ⁱ   Konov, Vitaly I ^a   Gali, Adam ^d,j   Wrachtrup, Jörg ^c  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b FRUMKIN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^f VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^g LABORATOIRE CRISMAT   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

ⁱ Texas AandM University   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; FLUORESCENCE; NANODIAMONDS; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CARBON ATOMS; CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; DIAMOND NANO-PARTICLES; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES; IMPURITY ATOMS; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL SIMULATIONS; SILICON VACANCIES; SIZE DEPENDENT;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

NANOCRYSTAL; NANODIAMOND;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84891790195     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.255     Document Type: Article

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