Engineering bright sub-10-nm upconverting nanocrystals for single-molecule imaging

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 300-305

  Gargas, Daniel J ^a   Chan, Emory M ^a   Ostrowski, Alexis D ^a,b   Aloni, Shaul ^a   Altoe, M Virginia P ^a   Barnard, Edward S ^a   Sanii, Babak ^a,c   Urban, Jeffrey J ^a   Milliron, Delia J ^a   Cohen, Bruce E ^a   Schuck, P James ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PROBES;

CONTINUOUS EMISSION; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING; SINGLE-MOLECULE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION; THEORETICAL MODELLING; UPCONVERTING NANOPARTICLES;

LUMINANCE;

LANTHANIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGING; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOENGINEERING; NANOIMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84898880062     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.29     Document Type: Article

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