A portable time-domain LED fluorimeter for nanosecond fluorescence lifetime measurements

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Hongtao ^a,b   Qi, Ying ^a,b   Mountziaris, T J ^a,b   Salthouse, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETERS; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; DETECTION DEVICE; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; STATE TRANSITIONS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

DNA; QUANTUM DOT;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; PROCEDURES;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84900297117     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: 10897623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4873330     Document Type: Article

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