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Nature Photonics 3, 608 - 609 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.198

Fluorescence: Molecules in a tight spot

Christopher C. Davis1

  1. Christopher C. Davis is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
    e-mail: davis@umd.edu


Researchers at Stanford University and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have demonstrated fluorescence enhancements ten times greater than previously demonstrated, by placing single fluorophores in an optical bowtie nano-antenna.

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