Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Nico Verhart on the following paper: Growth of optical-quality anthracene crystals doped with dibenzoterrylene for controlled single photon production by Kyle D. Major, Yu-Hung Lien, Claudio Polisseni, Samuele Grandi, Kiang Wei Kho, Alex S. Clark, Jaesuk Hwang, E. A. Hinds Rev. Sci. Instr. 86 (2015) 083106 DOI: 10.1063/1.4928500

1. Biswajit Pradhan: "Enhanced FCS of 'good fluorophores' in lipid bilayers by a gold nanorod” 2. Kirsten Martens: "Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and single-molecule microscopy to investigate protein-DNA interactions in chromatin"

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Subhasis Adhikari on the following papers: (1) Singlet-Triplet Annihilation Limits Exciton Yield in Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) Florian Steiner, Jan Vogelsang, and John M. Lupton Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 137402 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.137402 (2) Unraveling the chromophoric disorder of poly(3-hexylthiophene) Alexander Thiessen, Jan Vogelsang, Takuji Adachi, Florian Steiner, David Vanden Bout and John M. Lupton PNAS 110 (2013) E3550-E3556 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1307760110

1. Stefano Coppola: ‘Model-free analysis of step-size distributions to detect and quantify stochastic processes in live cells’ 2. Sara Carozza: ‘Excitation Spectroscopy on Gold Nanorods’

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Weichun Zhang on the following paper: Modified optical absorption of molecules on metallic nanoparticles at sub-monolayer coverage by Brendan L. Darby, Baptiste Auguié, Matthias Meyer, Andres E. Pantoja, Eric C. Le Ru Nature Photonics 10 (2016) 40-45 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2015.205

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news No literature report this week because the room must be freed at 10:00

This is to announce our next BSM seminar, next Thursday 24th March, at 9 a.m. We will have two speakers: Nelli Bossert: ‘Exploring fluorescent Ag-DNA in living cells’ Martin Caldarola: ‘Gold nanorods and single molecules’   The seminar will be in room HL106, as usual.