Methods for the analysis of complex fluorescence decays: Sum of Becquerel functions versus sum of exponentials

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Menezes, Filipe ^a,d   Fedorov, Alexander ^a   Baleizão, Carlos ^a   Valeur, Bernard ^b,c   Berberan Santos, Mario N ^a  

^a Centro de Quimica Fisica Molecular   (Portugal)

^b Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^c University of Paris Cité   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 84893102236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/1/1/015002     Document Type: Article

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