Research in the Single-Molecule Group
Current research
You can find a list of all our recent publications in this page. If you want to have a better insight into what we are currently doing, you may check the links below. Or explore our personal pages.
- Low-temperature, high-resolution spectroscopy of single molecules
- Single molecule FRET temperature-cycle microscopy
- Plasmonic enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence using gold nanorods
- Optoplasmonic biosensors
- Photothermal microscopy
Previous research
Our group has been conducting high-resolution single-molecule spectroscopy at low temperatures since the early 1990s. We have also worked on a large number of other subjects in nano-optics.
- First optical detection of magnetic resonance in a single molecule
- Detection of a single nuclear spin
- Spatial resolution of 4 nm with far-field optics
- Electronic structure of a bacterial antenna complex
- The Shpol’skii effect: single molecules as nanoprobes
- Photophysics of semiconductor nanocrystals
- Photoblinking and photobleaching of rhodamine 6G in PVA
- Spectroscopy of single II-VI nanocrystals
- Interferometric pump-probe spectroscopy of single gold nanoparticles
- Developing nano-instruments for organic field effect transistors
- Single-molecule studies of the local organization of polyethylene
- Optical lineshape of single molecules coupled to a tunneling two-Level system
- Temperature-Cycle Microscopy
- Cell-mechanics with an optically trapped gold nanorod
- Mechanical vibrations of single gold nanoparticles
- Photothermal Microscopy
- Low-temperature, high-resolution spectroscopy of single molecules