Publications related to Fluorometer

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

This thesis investigates novel single-molecule luminescence phenomena at their inherent, sub-molecular length scale. The microscopic understanding of luminescence processes will be crucial for the continued improvement of organic optoelectronic and semicon ...

EPFL2022

Diel quenching of Southern Ocean phytoplankton fluorescence is related to iron limitation

Nina Schuback

Evaluation of photosynthetic competency in time and space is critical for better estimates and models of oceanic primary productivity. This is especially true for areas where the lack of iron (Fe) limits phytoplankton productivity, such as the Southern Oce ...

2020

Direct Observation of Aggregation-Induced Emission Mechanism

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin, Han Han

The mechanism of aggregation-induced emission, which overcomes the common aggregation-caused quenching problem in organic optoelectronics, is revealed by monitoring the real time structural evolution and dynamics of electronic excited state with frequency ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Single-Photon, Time-Gated, Phasor-Based Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging through Highly Scattering Medium

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for biochemical and cellular investigations, including in vivo applications. Fluorescence lifetime is an intrinsic characteristic of any fluorescent dye which, to a large ext ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Photoaquation Mechanism of Hexacyanoferrate(II) Ions: Ultrafast 2D UV and Transient Visible and IR Spectroscopies

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Gerald Auböck, Raphaël Horváth

Ferrous iron(II) hexacyanide in aqueous solutions is known to undergo photoionization and photoaquation reactions depending on the excitation wavelength. To investigate this wavelength dependence, we implemented ultrafast two-dimensional UV transient absor ...

American Chemical Society2017

Energy-selective neutron imaging for materials science

Steven Luc X Peetermans

Common neutron imaging techniques study the attenuation of a neutron beam penetrating a sample of interest. The recorded radiograph shows a contrast depending on traversed material and its thickness. Tomography allows separating both and obtaining 3D spati ...

EPFL2015

Combined Optical Coherence and Fluorescence Microscopy to assess dynamics and specificity of pancreatic beta-cell tracers

Theo Lasser, Anne Grapin-Botton, Arno Pino Bouwens, Christophe Pache, Daniel Pawel Szlag, Corinne Berclaz, Antonio Lopez

The identification of a beta-cell tracer is a major quest in diabetes research. However, since MRI, PET and SPECT cannot resolve individual islets, optical techniques are required to assess the specificity of these tracers. We propose to combine Optical Co ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Spectral cola or how to turn green laser light red

Thibaud Humair, Xavier François Mettan, Csaba Forro

A green laser pointer shone through a glass of cola will appear red when looking from above the glass. Lowering the laser so that it is deeper in the cola, the colour will vary from orange to deep red. Fluorescence and absorption spectra were recorded cons ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

A new transmission based monochromator for energy-selective neutron imaging at the ICON beamline

Steven Luc X Peetermans

A new type of monochromator has been developed for energy-selective neutron imaging at continuous sources. It combines the use of a mechanical neutron velocity selector with pyrolytic graphite crystals of different mosaicity. The beam can be monochromatize ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Femtosecond photoelectron and photoion spectrometer with vacuum ultraviolet probe pulses

Jakob Grilj

We describe a femtosecond photoelectron and photoion spectroscopy setup using a simple, novel way to produce a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) probe pulse. We isolate the femtosecond VUV pulse from a high harmonic continuum by using the bandpass characteristics o ...

Elsevier2014

Very small photoluminescent gold nanoparticles for multimodality biomedical imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo

An original synthesis method based on X-ray irradiation produced gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with two important properties for biomedical research: intense visible photoluminescence and very high accumulation in cancer cells. The nanoparticles, coated with ...

Elsevier2013

Fluorescent magnetic bead and cell differentiation/counting using a CMOS SPAD matrix

Edoardo Charbon, Martinus Gijs, Ulrike Lehmann, Caroline Vandevyver, Emile Dupont

We present a monolithic silicon chip comprising a matrix of 84 single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) to detect and discriminate fluorescent beads or fluorescently labeled single cells in a polydimethyl(-siloxane) (PDMS) cartridge that is positioned on top ...

Elsevier2012

Determination of the size of quantum dots by fluorescence spectroscopy

Sandor Kasas

There has been a lack of quick, simple and reliable methods for determination of nanoparticle size. An investigation of the size of hydrophobic (CdSe) and hydrophilic (CdSe/ZnS) quantum dots was performed by using the maximum position of the corresponding ...

2011

Ultrafast Visible and Ultraviolet Fluorescence Studies of Molecular and Biological Sytems in Solution

Olivier Christian Bräm

A wide variety of physical and chemical processes at the molecular level, as charge or energy transfer, solvation, electronic as well as vibrational relaxation, is at the origin of the biological functionality of proteins. The work reported in this thesis ...

EPFL2011

Resonance fluorescence of single molecules assisted by a plasmonic structure

Olivier Martin, Lina Huang

The resonance fluorescence of a two-level single molecular system interacting with a plasmonic nanostructure is investigated. Specific regions of space are identified, where a balance exists between the near-field enhancement and the modification of the de ...

2010

Fluorescent nanopigments: Quantitative assessment of their quantum yield

Libero Zuppiroli, Rolando Ferrini

In the last few years, an intense research effort has focused on the synthesis of fluorescent nanopigments for functional inks, light harvesting, tagging, tracing, (bio)labeling, imaging, and lighting applications. Moreover, combined with dielectric matric ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Detection efficiency in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger

We present a rapid and flexible framework for the accurate calculation of the detection efficiency of fluorescence emission in isotropic media as well as in the vicinity of dielectric or metallic interfaces. The framework accounts for the dipole characteri ...

2008

Femtosecond Fluorescence and Intersystem Crossing in Rhenium(I) Carbonyl-Bipyridine Complexes

Majed Chergui, Andrea Cannizzo, Amal El Nahhas

Ultrafast electronic-vibrational relaxation upon excitation of the singlet charge-transfer b1A' state of [Re(L)(CO)3(bpy)]n (L = Cl, Br, I, n = 0; L = 4-Et-pyridine, n = 1+) in acetonitrile was investigated using the femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion ...

2008

Microscopy capabilities of the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer

Sebastian Gautsch

The Phoenix microscopy station, designed for the study of Martian dust and soil,consists of a sample delivery system, an optical microscope, and an atomic force microscope. The combination of microscopies facilitates the study of features from the millimet ...

2008

Mechanical Design of a Spherical Grating Monochromator for the Microspectroscopy Beamline PolLux at the Swiss Light Source

Simon Nessim Henein

This paper describes a new monochromator design for a bending magnet beamline of the Swiss Light Source synchrotron facility. The beamline optics is based on a horizontally deflecting spherical grating monochromator (SGM) with two gratings at a constant de ...

2007