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Conducting Multiple Imaging Modes with One Fluorescence Microscope
Published on: October 28, 2018
Single-molecule STED microscopy with photostable organic fluorophores
Robert Kasper1, Benjamin Harke, Carsten Forthmann
1Applied Laser Physics and Laser Spectroscopy Bielefeld University Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|June 4, 2010
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