Single Molecule Projects

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Imaging and Quantum Optics

Mostly new fluorophores, polymer studies, quantum optical experiments. (For biophysical studies, see Biophysics and Cellular Imaging.)

• Single and Moving Terrylene Molecules in a Spin-Coated Crystal [PDF] [Movies]
• A Novel Fluorophore for Two-Photon-Excited Single-Molecule Fluorescence: Chem. Phys. 318, 7 (2005)
• Nonlinear Optical Chromophores for Single-Molecule Spectroscopy [Slide]
• Novel Reporter Fluorophores for Single-Molecule Imaging [Slides]
• Single-Molecule Orientational Imaging of Perylenediimide-poly (butadiene) [Slides]
• Room Temperature Source of Single Photons on Demand [Slide]
• Photon Antibunching for Single CdSe Quantum Dots [Abstract]
• Imaging Single Molecules Aligned Both Parallel and Perpendicular to the Optic Axis : Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5322 (1998)
• Pumping Single Molecules with Whispering Gallery Modes of Microspheres [Abstract]