Publications

We have tried to provide a comprehensive list of single-molecule publications from our group with links to the articles, using DOI-based references when possible. Please note, however, that the accessibility of a given abstract and full text version will depend on whether your institution has a subscription to that particular journal. (Please refer to the homepage of your library for details about your electronic subscriptions.)

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PhD Theses

2022

Two-Photon-Excited Single-Molecule Fluorescence Enhanced by Gold Nanorod Dimers

Xuxing Lu, Deep Punj, Michel Orrit

Nano Letters, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01219

Single-molecule and particle spectroscopy in Leiden: absorption, scattering and fluorescence

Subhasis Adhikari, Michel Orrit

Journal of Optics, doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac51b2

Imaging the Magnetization of Single Magnetite Nanoparticle Clusters via Photothermal Circular Dichroism

Patrick Spaeth, Subhasis Adhikari, Kaveh Lahabi, Martin Dieter Baaske, Yonghui Wang, Michel Orrit

Nano Letters, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00178

Progress and perspectives in single-molecule optical spectroscopy

Subhasis Adhikari, Michel Orrit

J. Chem. Phys, doi: 10.1063/5.0087003

Nanosecond time scale transient optoplasmonic detection of single proteins

Martin D. Baaske, Nasrin Asgari, Deep Punj, Michel Orrit

Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl5576

Controlled synthesis of gold nanorod dimers with end-to-end configurations

Xuxing Lu, Deep Punj, Michel Orrit

Science Advances, doi: 10.1039/D2RA01288J

2021

Reverse Intersystem Crossing of Single Deuterated Perylene Molecules in a Dibenzothiophene Matrix

Robert Smit, Zoran Ristanovic, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz, Michel Orrit

ChemPhysChem, doi: 10.1002/cphc.202100679

Photothermal Spectro-Microscopy as Benchmark for Optoplasmonic Bio-Detection Assays

Martin D. Baaske, Nasrin Asgari, Patrick Spaeth, Subhasis Adhikari, Deep Punj, Michel Orrit

J. Phys. Chem, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07592

Photothermal Circular Dichroism of Single Nanoparticles Rejecting Linear Dichroism by Dual Modulation

Patrick Spaeth, Subhasis Adhikari, Martin Dieter Baaske, Sergii Pud, Jacco Ton, Michel Orrit

ACS NANO 2021, doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c05374

Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

C. Toninelli, I. Gerhardt, A.S. Clark, A. Reserbat-Plantey, S. Götzinger, Z. Ristanovic, M. Colautti, P. Lombardi, K.D. Major, I. Deperasi?ska, W.H. Pernice, F.H.L. Koppens, B. Kozankiewicz, A. Gourdon, V. Sandoghdar, M. Orrit

NATURE MATERIALS 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-00987-4

2020

Effective Electron Temperature Measurement Using Time-Resolved Anti-Stokes Photoluminescence

Thomas Jollans, Martin Caldarola, Yonatan Sivan and Michel Orrit

J. Phys. Chem. 2020, 124, 34, 6968-6976, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06671

Photothermal Microscopy: Imaging the Optical Absorption of Single Nanoparticles and Single Molecules

Subhasis Adhikari, Patrick Spaeth, Ashish Kar, Martin D. Baaske, Saumyakanti Khatua, Michel Orrit

ACS NANO 2020, doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07638

Label-Free Plasmonic Detection of Untethered Nanometer-Sized Brownian Particles

Martin D. Baaske, Peter S. Neu, Michel Orrit

ACS NANO 2020, 14, 14212–14218. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c07335

Laser-Induced Frequency Tuning of Fourier-Limited Single-Molecule Emitter

Maja Colautti, Francesco S. Piccioli, Zoran Ristanovic, Pietro Lombardi, Amin Moradi, Subhasis Adhikari, Irena Deperasinska, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz, Michel Orrit, Costanza Toninelli

ACS NANO 2020, 14, 13584–13592. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c05620

QUANTUM YIELD LIMITS FOR THE DETECTION OF SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT BY A GOLD NANOROD

Xuxing Lu, Gang Ye, Deep Punj, Ryan C. Chiechi and Michel Orrit

ACS PHOTONICS. 2020, 7 (9), 2497-2505.

Single electron transfer events and dynamical heterogeneity in the small protein azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Biswajit Pradhan, Christopher Engelhard, Sebastiaan Van Mulken, Xueyan Miao, Gerard W. Canters, Michel Orrit
CHEM SCI 1, 2020, 11, 763-771.

2019

Circular Dichroism Measurement of Single Metal Nanoparticles Using Photothermal Imaging

Patrick Spaeth, Subhasis Adhikari, Laurent Le, Thomas Jollans, Sergii Pud, Wiebke Albrecht, Thomas Bauer, Martín Caldarola, L.(Kobus) Kuipers, Michel Orrit

NANO LETT. 2019, 19, 8934-8940

Explosive, oscillatory, and Leidenfrost boiling at the nanoscale

Thomas Jollans, Michel Orrit
PHYS REV E 99, 2019 (27 JUN 2019)

Nonfluorescent Optical Probing of Single Molecules and Nanoparticles

Thomas Jollans, Martin D. Baaske, Michel Orrit
J PHYS CHEM C 123(23), 2019 (19 APR 2019)

Matrix-induced Linear Stark Effect of Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in 2,3-Dibromonaphthalene Crystal

Amin Moradi, Zoran Ristanovic, Michel Orrit, Irena Deperasinska, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz
CHEMPHYSCHEM 20(1), 2019,55-61.

2018

Single-molecule fluorescence enhancement of a near-infrared dye by gold nanorods using DNA transient binding

Weichun Zhang, Martín Caldarola, Xuxing Lu, Biswajit Pradhan, Michel Orrit
PHYS CHEM CHEM PHYS 31, 2018

Plasmonic Enhancement of Two-Photon-Excited Luminescence of Single Quantum Dots by Individual Gold Nanorods

Weichun Zhang, Martín Caldarola, Xuxing Lu, Michel Orrit
ACS PHOTONICS 5(7), 2018 (11 JUN 2018)

Quantifying fluorescence enhancement for slowly diffusing single molecules in plasmonic near fields

Martín Caldarola, Biswajit Pradhan, Michel Orrit
J CHEM PHYS 148, 2018 (16 MAR 2018)

Gold nanoparticles as absolute nano-thermometers

Aquiles Carattino, Martín Caldarola, Michel Orrit
NANO LETT 18(2), 2018 (22 DEC 2017)

2017

Gold Nanorod-Enhanced Fluorescence Enables Single-Molecule Electrochemistry of Methylene Blue

Weichun Zhang, Martín Caldarola, Biswajit Pradhan, Michel Orrit
ANGEWANDTE CHEM, 56(13), 23 FEB 2017

Absorption and Quantum Yield of Single Conjugated Polymer Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) Molecules

Lei Hou, Subhasis Adhikari, Yuxi Tian, Ivan Scheblykin, Michel Orrit
NANO LETT, 17(3), 21 FEB 2017

2016

Background Suppression in Imaging Gold Nanorods through Detection of Anti-Stokes Emission

Aquiles Carattino, Veer I. P. Keizer, Marcel J. M. Schaaf, Michel Orrit
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 2016, 111 (11), 2492–2499

Gold-Nanorod-Enhanced Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy of Fluorophores with High Quantum Yield in Lipid Bilayers

Biswajit Pradhan, Saumyakanti Khatua, Ankur Gupta, Thijs Aartsma, Gerard Canters, Michel Orrit
J PHYS CHEM C, 2016, 120 (45), 25996–26003

Hundreds-fold Sensitivity Enhancement of Photothermal Microscopy in Near-Critical Xenon

Tina X. Ding, Lei Hou, Harmen van der Meer, A. Paul Alivisatos, and Michel Orrit
J PHYS CHEM LETT, 2016, 7, 2524–2529

Intersystem crossing rates of single perylene molecules in ortho-dichlorobenzene

Nico R. Verhart, Pedro Navarro, Sanli Faez and Michel Orrit
PHYS CHEM CHEM PHYS, 2016, 18, 17655-17659

In situ tuning of gold nanorod plasmon through oxidative cyanide etching

Aquiles Carattino, Saumyakanti Khatua and Michel Orrit
PHYS CHEM CHEM PHYS, 2016, 18, 15619-15624

Spectroscopy of Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in para-Dichlorobenzene

Nico R. Verhart, Mathias Müller and Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM 2016, 17, 1524

2015

Fast, Label-Free Tracking of Single Viruses and Weakly Scattering Nanoparticles in a Nanofluidic Optical Fiber

Sanli Faez, Yoav Lahini, Stefan Weidlich, Rees F. Garmann, Katrin Wondraczek, Matthias Zeisberger, Markus A. Schmidt, Michel Orrit, and Vinothan N. Manoharan
ACS NANO, 9 (12), OCT 27 2015)

Design and synthesis of aromatic molecules for probing electric fields at the nanoscale

Sanli Faez, Nico R. Verhart, Marios Markoulides, Francesco Buda, André Gourdon and Michel Orrit
FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, 184, SEPT 29 2015, arXiv:1511.08597

Explosive formation and dynamics of vapor nanobubbles around a continuously heated gold nanosphere

Lei Hou, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Nico R Verhart and Michel Orrit
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 17, JAN 27 2015

2014

Optical tracing of multiple charges in single-electron devices

Sanli Faez, Sense Jan van der Molen, Michel Orrit
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 90(2014)

Stable Single-Molecule Lines of Terrylene in Polycrystalline para-Dichlorobenzene at 1.5 K

Pedro Navarro, Yuxi Tian, Marijn van Stee, Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 15 (6 OCT 2014)

Single Molecule as a Local Acoustic Detector for Mechanical Oscillators

Yuxi Tian, Pedro Navarro, Michel Orrit
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 113 (26 SEP 2014)

Probing, Sensing, and Fluorescence Enhancement with Single Gold Nanorods

Saumyakanti Khatua, Michel Orrit
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 5 (4 SEP 2014)

Enhanced-fluorescence correlation spectroscopy at micro-molar dye concentration around a single gold nanorod

Saumyakanti Khatua, Haifeng Yuan, Michel Orrit
PHYS CHEM CHEM PHYS, 17 (1 SEP 2014)

Resonant Plasmonic Enhancement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence by Individual Gold Nanorods

Saumyakanti Khatua, Pedro M. R. Paulo, Haifeng Yuan, Ankur Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Michel Orrit
ACS NANO, 8 (MAY 2014)

Probing Silver Deposition on Single Gold Nanorods by Their Acoustic Vibrations

Kuai Yu, John E. Sader, Peter Zijlstra, Minghui Hong, Qing-Hua Xu, Michel Orrit
NANO LETTERS, 14 (FEB 2014)

2013

Mustafa Yorulmaz (PhD Thesis)

Absorption, luminescence, and scattering of single nano-objects

Haifeng Yuan (PhD Thesis)

Single molecules in soft matter : a study of biomolecular conformation, heterogeneity and plasmon enhanced fluorescence

Toward Single-Molecule Microscopy on a Smart Phone

Saumyakanti Khatua, Michel Orrit
ACS NANO, 7 (OCT 2013)

Giant Magnetic Susceptibility of Gold Nanorods Detected by Magnetic Alignment

P. G. van Rhee, P. Zijlstra, T. G. A. Verhagen, J. Aarts, M. I. Katsnelson, J. C. Maan, M. Orrit, P. C. M. Christianen
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 111 (17 SEP 2013)

Damping of Acoustic Vibrations of Immobilized Single Gold Nanorods in Different Environments

Kuai Yu, Peter Zijlstra, John E. Sader, Qing-Hua Xu, Michel Orrit
NANO LETTERS, 13 (JUN 2013)

Individual gold nanorods report on dynamical heterogeneity in supercooled glycerol

Haifeng Yuan, Saumyakanti Khatua, Peter Zijlstra, Michel Orrit
FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, 167 (2013)

Optical studies of single metal nanoparticles

Greg Hartland, Hiromi Okamoto, Michel Orrit, Peter Zijlstra
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 15 (2013)

Nanoscale probing of charge transport in an organic field-effect transistor at cryogenic temperatures

A. A. L. Nicolet, M. A. Kol’chenko, C. Hofmann, B. Kozankiewicz, M. Orrit
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 15 (2013)

Thousand-fold Enhancement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Near a Single Gold Nanorod

Haifeng Yuan, Saumyakanti Khatua, Peter Zijlstra, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Michel Orrit
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 52 (2013)

Towards a Molecular View of Glass Heterogeneity

Michel Orrit
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 52 (2013)

2012

P. V. Ruijgrok (Ph.D. thesis)

Optical manipulation and study of single gold nanoparticles in solution

Spectral Diffusion of Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in 2,3-Dimethylanthracene

Yuxi Tian, Pedro Navarro, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz, Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 13 (22 OCT 2012)

Foreword

Frank Cichos, Michel Orrit
CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 406 (8 OCT 2012)

Luminescence Quantum Yield of Single Gold Nanorods (vol 12, pg 4385, 2012)

Mustafa Yorulmaz, Saumyakanti Khatua, Peter Zijlstra, Alexander Gaiduk, Michel Orrit
NANO LETTERS, 12 (SEP 2012)

Dynamical heterogeneity in supercooled glycerol

Haifeng Yuan, Saumyakanti Khatua, Ted Xia, Michel Orrit
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 244(2012)

Luminescence Quantum Yield of Single Gold Nanorods

Mustafa Yorulmaz, Saumyakanti Khatua, Peter Zijlstra, Alexander Gaiduk, Michel Orrit
NANO LETTERS, 12 (AUG 2012)

Optical detection of single non-absorbing molecules using the surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanorod

Peter Zijlstra, Pedro M. R. Paulo, Michel Orrit
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 7 (JUN 2012)

Absorption, Luminescence, and Sizing of Organic Dye Nanoparticles and of Patterns Formed Upon Dewetting

Alexander Gaiduk, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Elena Ishow, Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 13 (MAR 2012)

Reaction Pathways from Single-Molecule Trajectories

Haifeng Yuan, Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 13 (FEB 2012)

Damping of Acoustic Vibrations of Single Gold Nanoparticles Optically Trapped in Water

Paul V. Ruijgrok, Peter Zijlstra, Anna L. Tchebotareva, Michel Orrit
NANO LETTERS, 12 (FEB 2012)

Communication: Crystallite nucleation in supercooled glycerol near the glass transition

Hai-Feng Yuan, Ted Xia, Marie Plazanet, Bruno Deme, Michel Orrit
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 136 (28 JAN 2012)

Chemical Int erface Damping in Single Gold Nanorods and Its Near Elimination byTip-Specific Functionalization

Peter Zijlstra, Pedro M. R. Paulo, Kuai Yu, Qing-Hua Xu, Michel Orrit
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 51 (2012)

Rotational diffusion and alignment of short gold nanorods in an external electric field

Peter Zijlstra, Marijn van Stee, Nico Verhart, Ziyu Gu, Michel Orrit
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 14 (2012)

2011

Single metal nanoparticles: optical detection, spectroscopy and applications

P. Zijlstra, M. Orrit
REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS, 74 (OCT 2011)

Optical spectroscopy of single gold nanoparticles

Paul V. Ruijgrok, Nico Verhart, Anna L. Tchebotareva, Peter Zijlstra, Michel Orrit
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 242(2011)

Brownian Fluctuations and Heating of an Optically Aligned Gold Nanorod

P. V. Ruijgrok, N. R. Verhart, P. Zijlstra, A. L. Tchebotareva, M. Orrit
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 107 (11 JUL 2011)

Correlated Absorption and Photoluminescence of Single Gold Nanoparticles

Alexander Gaiduk, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Michel Orrit
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 12 (JUN 6 2011)

Toward Far-field Vibrational Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at Room Temperature

M. J. Winterhalder, A. Zumbusch, M. Lippitz, M. Orrit
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 115 (12 MAY 2011)

Making gold nanoparticles fluorescent for simultaneous absorption and fluorescence detection on the single particle level

Alexander Gaiduk, Paul V. Ruijgrok, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Michel Orrit
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 13 (2011)

Temperature-cycle single-molecule FRET microscopy on polyprolines

Haifeng Yuan, Ted Xia, Benjamin Schuler, Michel Orrit
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 13 (2011)

2010

Ted Xia (Ph.D. thesis)
Probing spatial heterogeneity in supercooled glycerol and temporal heterogeneity with single-molecule FRET in polyprolines

Room-Temperature Detection of a Single Molecule’s Absorption by Photothermal Contrast

A. Gaiduk, M. Yorulmaz, P. V. Ruijgrok, M. Orrit
SCIENCE, 330 (OCT 15 2010)

SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES Frequency jitter of a nano-emitter

Michel Orrit
NATURE PHOTONICS, 4 (OCT 2010)

Detection limits in photothermal microscopy

Alexander Gaiduk, Paul V. Ruijgrok, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Michel Orrit
CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 1 (1 SEP 2010)

Probing the acoustic vibrations of single metal nanoparticles by ultrashort laser pulses

Anna L. Tchebotareva, Paul V. Ruijgrok, Peter Zijlstra, Michel Orrit
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, 4 (SEP 2010)

Aging and Solidification of Supercooled Glycerol

M. E. Mobius, T. Xia, W. van Saarloos, M. Orrit, M. van Hecke
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 114 (10 JUN 2010)

Single Molecules as Optical Nanoprobes for Soft and Complex Matter

Florian Kulzer, Ted Xia, Michel Orrit
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 49 (2010)

Chemical and physical aspects of charge transfer in the fluorescence intermittency of single molecules and quantum dots

Michel Orrit
PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 9 (2010)

2009

T.Xia, L.Xiao, M. Orrit
“Micron-sized structure in a thin glycerol film revealed by fluorescent probes”
J. Phys. Chem. B 113(2009) 15724-15729

M. Orrit
“From Langmuir-Blodgett films to single molecules”
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 74(2009) 396-400

M. Orrit, T.Basché
“Steady light from quantum dots, at last. But how?”
ChemPhysChem 10(2009) 2383-2385

M. Orrit
“Photons pushed together”
Nature 460 (2009) 42-44

P. M. R. Paulo, A. Gaiduk, F. Kulzer, S. F. G. Krens, H. P. Spaink, T. Schmidt, M. Orrit
“Photothermal correlation spectroscopy of gold nanoparticles in solution”
J. Phys. Chem. C 113 (2009) 11451-11457

M. A. Kol’chenko, A. A. L. Nicolet, M. D. Galouzis, C. Hofman, B. Kozankiewicz, M. Orrit
“Single molecules detect ultra-slow oscillators in a molecular crystal excited by ac voltages”
New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 023037

A. L. Tchebotareva, M. A. van Dijk, P. V. Ruijgrok, V. Fokkema, M. H. S. Hesselberth, M. Lippitz, M. Orrit
“Acoustic and Optical Modes of Single Dumbbells of Gold Nanoparticles”
ChemPhysChem 10 (2009) 111-114

2008

T. Xia, M. Orrit, Kees Storm en Wim van Saarloos
“Verrassend gedrag van onderkoeld glycerol boven de glasovergang”
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde (2008), 74-10, 340

A. Nicolet, C. Hofmann, M. A. Kol’chenko, M. Orrit
“Anthracene-Based Organic Field-Effect Transistor: Temperature Dependence of the Current-Voltage Characteristics”
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 497 (2008) 218-227

P. Zijlstra, A. L. Tchebotareva, J. W. M. Chon, M. Gu, M. Orrit
“Acoustic Oscillations and Elastic Moduli of Single Gold Nanorods”
Nano Lett. 8 (2008) 3493-3497

F. Kulzer, N. Laurens, J. Besser, T. Schmidt, M. Orrit, H. P. Spaink
“Photothermal Detection of Individual Gold Nanoparticles: Perspectives for High-Throughput Screening”
ChemPhysChem 9 (2008) 1761-1766

R. Zondervan, T. Xia, H. van der Meer, C. Storm, F. Kulzer, W. van Saarloos, M. Orrit
“Soft glassy rheology of Supercooled molecular liquids”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 13 (2008) 4993-4998

A. Sigl, Chr. Scharnagl, J. Friedrich, A. Gourdon, M. Orrit
“2-methylterrylene in hexadecane: Do we see single rotational quantum jumps of methyl groups?”
J. Chem. Phys. 128 (2008) 044508-044516

2007

M. A. van Dijk (Ph.D. thesis)
Nonlinear-Optical Studies of Single Gold Nanoparicles

A. Nicolet (Ph.D. thesis)
Single-Molecule Probes in Organic Field-Effect Transistors

M. Orrit
“Quantum light switch”
Nature. Phys 3 (2007) 755-756

F. Cichos, C. von Borczyskowski, M. Orrit
“Power-law intermittency of single emitters”
Curr. Opin. Colloid. Interface. Sci 12 (2007) 272-284

A. Sigl, M. Orrit, R. Jankowiak, J. Friedrich
“Terrylene in hexadecane revisited: A hole burning study”
J. Chem. Phys. 127 (2007) 084510-084517

A. Nicolet, P. Bordat, C. Hofmann, M. A. Kol’chenko, B. Kozankiewicz, R. Brown, M. Orrit
“Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in an Anthracene Crystal: Main Insertion Sites”
ChemPhysChem 8 (2007) 1926-1936

C. von Borczyskowski, J. Köhler, W. E. Moerner, M. Orrit, J. Wrachtrup
“Single-Molecule Electron Spin Resonance”
Appl. Magn. Reson. 31 (2007) 665-676

R. Zondervan, F. Kulzer, G. C. G. Berkhout, M. Orrit
“Local viscosity of Supercooled glycerol near Tg Probed by rotational diffusion of ensembles and single dye molecules”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 31 (2007)12628-12633

A. Nicolet, C. Hofmann, M. A. Kol’chenko, B. Kozankiewicz, M. Orrit
“Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in an Anthracene Crystal: Spectroscopy and Photophysics”
ChemPhysChem 8 (2007) 1215-1220

M.A. van Dijk, M. Lippitz, D. Stolwijk, M. Orrit
“A Common-Path Interferometer for Time-Resolved and Shot-Noise-Limited Detection of Single Nanoparticles”
Opt. Express 15 (2007) 2273-2287

2006

A.C. Wirtz, M. Dokter, C. Hofmann, E.J.J. Groenen
“Spincoated polyethylene films for single-molecule optics”
Chem. Phys. Lett. 417 (2006) 383-388

R. Zondervan (Ph.D. thesis)
Single-molecule dynamics at variable temperatures

R. Zondervan, F. Kulzer, H. van der Meer, J.A.J.M. Disselhorst, M. Orrit
“Laser-driven microsecond temperature cycles analyzed by fluorescence polarization microscopy”
Biophys. J. 90 (2006) 2958-2969
(a BioFAST pre-print is also available)

A. Nicolet, M.A. Kol´chenko, B. Kozankiewicz, M. Orrit
“Intermolecular intersystem crossing in single-molecule spectroscopy: Terrylene in anthracene crystal”
J. Chem. Phys. 124 (2006) 164711

M.A. van Dijk, A.L. Tchebotareva, M. Orrit, M. Lippitz, S. Berciaud, D. Lasne, L. Cognet, B. Lounis
“Absorption and scattering microscopy of single metal nanoparticles”
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 8 (2006) 3486-3495

C. Hofmann, M. Orrit
“Four-Level Optical Lineshape of a Single Molecule Coupled to a Single Tunneling Two-Level System”
J. Phys. Chem. B 110 (2006) 18925-18932

A.C. Wirtz, C. Hofmann, E.J.J. Groenen
“Spin-Coated Polyethylene Films Probed by Single Molecules” J. Phys. Chem. B 110 (2006) 21623-21629

A.C. Wirtz (Ph.D. thesis)
Optically Probing Structure and Organization

2005

R.A.L. Vallée, M. van der Auweraer, F.C. De Schryver, D. Beljonne, M. Orrit
“A Microscopic Model for the Fluctuations of Local Field and Spontaneous Emission of
Single Molecules in Disordered Media”
ChemPhysChem 6 (2005) 81-91

R. Verberk, J.W.M. Chon, M. Gu, M. Orrit
“Environment-dependent blinking of single semiconductor nanocrystals and statistical aging of ensembles”
Physica E 26 (2005) 19-23

M. Lippitz, M.A. van Dijk, M. Orrit
“Third-Harmonic Generation from Single Gold Nanoparticles”
Nano Lett. 5 (2005) 799-802

R. Verberk (Ph.D. thesis)
Photon statistics and power-law blinking of single semiconductor nanocrystals

B. Lounis, M. Orrit
“Single-photon sources”
Rep. Prog. Phys. 68 (2005) 1129-1179

M. Lippitz, F. Kulzer, M. Orrit
“Statistical Evaluation of Single Nano-Object Fluorescence”
ChemPhysChem 6 (2005) 770-789

M.A. Kol´chenko, B. Kozankiewicz, A. Nicolet, M. Orrit
“Intersystem crossing mechanisms and single-molecule fluorescence. Terrylene in anthracene crystals”
Opt. Spectrosc. 98 (2005) 681-686

M.A. van Dijk, M. Lippitz, M. Orrit
“Far-Field Optical Microscopy of Single Metal Nanoparticles”
Acc. Chem. Res. 38 (2005) 594-601

C. Hofmann, A. Nicolet, M.A. Kol´chenko, M. Orrit
“Towards nanoprobes for conduction in molecular crystals: dibenzoterrylene in anthracene crystals”
Chem. Phys. 318 (2005) 1-6

M.A. van Dijk, M. Lippitz, M. Orrit
“Detection of Acoustic Oscillations of Single Gold Nanospheres by Time-Resolved Interferometry”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 267406
(an arXiv pre-print is also available)

2004

R. Zondervan, F. Kulzer, M.A. Kol´chenko, M. Orrit
“Photobleaching of Rhodamine 6G in Poly(vinyl alcohol) at the Ensemble and Single-Molecule Levels”
J. Phys. Chem. A 108 (2004) 1657-1665

F. Kulzer, M. Orrit
“Single-Molecule Optics”
Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 55 (2004) 585-611

2003

D. Boyer, P. Tamarat, A. Maali, M. Orrit, B. Lounis
“Imaging single metal nanoparticles in scattering media by photothermal interference contrast”
Physica E 17 (2003) 537-540

R. Verberk, M. Orrit
“Photon statistics in the fluorescence of single molecules and nanocrystals: Correlation functions versus distributions of on- and off-times”
J. Chem. Phys. 119 (2003) 2214-2222

R. Zondervan, F. Kulzer, S.B. Orlinskii, M. Orrit
“Photoblinking of Rhodamine 6G in Poly(vinyl alcohol): Radical Dark State Formed through the Triplet”
J. Phys. Chem. A 107 (2003) 6770-6776

M. Orrit
“The Motions of an Enzyme Soloist”
Science 302 (2003) 239-240

2002

A. Bloeß, Y. Durand, M. Matsushita, H. van der Meer, G.J. Brakenhoff, J. Schmidt
“Optical far-field microscopy of single molecules with 3.4 nm lateral resolution”
J. Microsc.-Oxf. 205 (2002) 76-85

M. Ketelaars, C. Hofmann, J. Köhler, T.D. Howard, R.J. Cogdell, J. Schmidt, T.J. Aartsma
“Spectroscopy on individual light-harvesting 1 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila”
Biophys. J. 83 (2002) 1701-1715

M. Matsushita, A. Bloeß, Y. Durand, J. Butter, J. Schmidt, E.J.J. Groenen
“Single molecules as nanoprobes. A study of the Shpol’skii effect”
J. Chem. Phys. 117 (2002) 3383-3390

D. Boyer, Ph. Tamarat, A. Maali, B. Lounis, M. Orrit
“Photothermal imaging of nano-meter-sized metal particles among scatterers”
Science 297 (2002) 1160-1163

J.-M. Caruge, M. Orrit
“Investigations of local currents in a semiconductor by single-molecule spectroscopy”
J. Lumin. 98 (2002) 1-5

M. Orrit
“Molecular entanglements”
Science 298 (2002) 369-370

R. Verberk, A.M. van Oijen, M. Orrit
“Simple model for the power-law blinking of single semiconductor nanocrystals”
Phys. Rev. B 66 (2002) 233202

M. Orrit
“Photon Statistics in Single Molecule Experiments”
Single Molecules 3 (2002) 255-265

M. Orrit
“Single-molecule spectroscopy: The road ahead”
J. Chem. Phys. 117 (2002) 10938-10946

2001

M. Ketelaars, A.M. van Oijen, M. Matsushita, J. Köhler, J. Schmidt, T.J. Aartsma
“Spectroscopy on the B850 band of individual light-harvesting 2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: I. Experiments and Monte-Carlo simulations”
Biophys. J. 80 (2001) 1591-1603

M. Matsushita, M. Ketelaars, A.M. van Oijen, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Spectroscopy on the B850 band of individual light-harvesting 2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: II. Exciton states of an elliptically deformed ring aggregate”
Biophys. J. 80 (2001) 1604-1614

A. Bloeß, Y. Durand, M. Matsushita, R. Verberk, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Microscopic structure in a Shpol’skii system. A single-molecule study of dibenzanthanthrene in n-tetradecane”
J. Phys. Chem. A 105 (2001) 3016-3021

Y. Durand, A. Bloeß, J. Köhler, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Spectral diffusion of individual pentacene, terrylene and dibenzanthanthrene molecules in n-tetradecane”
J. Chem. Phys. 114 (2001) 6843-6850

A.M. van Oijen, Y. Durand, R. Verberk, J. Schmidt, A. Meijerink
“Continuous-wave two-photon excitation of individual CdS nanocrystallites”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 79 (2001) 830-832

A. Bloe? Y. Durand, M. Matsushita, J. Schmidt, E.J.J. Groenen
“A single-molecule study of the relation between the resonance frequency and the orientation of a guest molecule in a Shpol’skii system”
Chem. Phys. Lett. 344 (2001) 55-60

A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“The electronic structure of single photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes”
in:

“Single Molecule Spectroscopy – Nobel Conference Lectures”
R. Rigler, M. Orrit, T. Basché (eds.), Springer, Berlin (2001) 62-81

J. Köhler, A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, C. Hofmann, M. Matsushita, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Optical spectroscopy of individual photosynthetic pigment protein complexes”
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 15 (2001) 3633-3636

2000

Y. Durand, A. Bloeß, A.M. van Oijen, J. Köhler, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“An optical study of single pentacene molecules in n-tetradecane”
Chem. Phys. Letters 317 (2000) 232-237

A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Spectroscopy of individual LH2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: Diagonal disorder, intercomplex heterogeneity, spectral diffusion and energy transfer in the B800 band”
Biophys. J. 78 (2000) 1570-1577

1999

A.M. van Oijen, J. Köhler, J. Schmidt, M. Müller, G.J. Brakenhoff
“Far-field fluorescence microscopy beyond the diffraction limit”
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16 (1999) 909-915

A.C.J. Brouwer, J. Köhler, A.M. van Oijen, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Single-molecule fluorescence autocorrelation experiments on pentacene. The dependence of intersystem crossing on isotopic composition”
J. Chem. Phys. 110 (1999) 9151-9159

A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Spectroscopy of individual LH2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: localized excitations in the B800 band”
Chem. Phys. 247 (1999) 53-60

A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Unraveling the electronic structure of individual photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes”
Science 285 (1999) 400-402

A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, M.C. van Hemert, J. Schmidt
“Isotope shifts and intersystem crossing for pentacene in p-terphenyl. A model system of single-molecule spectroscopy”
J. Phys. Chem. A 103 (1999) 8959-8965

1998

J. Köhler, A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Isotopomer selective spectroscopy on pentacene”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998) 1900-1905

A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Detecting magnetic resonance through quantum jumps of single molecules”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 3944-3947

A.M. van Oijen, J. Köhler, J. Schmidt, M. Müller, G.J. Brakenhoff
“3-Dimensional super-resolution by spectrally selective imaging”
Chem. Phys. Lett. 292 (1998) 183-187

A.M. van Oijen, M. Ketelaars, J. Köhler, T.J. Aartsma, J. Schmidt
“Spectroscopy of single light-harvesting complexes from purple photosynthetic bacteria at 1.2 K”
J. Phys. Chem. B 102 (1998) 9363-9366

1997

J. Köhler, J. Schmidt
“Perspectives of single-molecule magnetic-resonance spectroscopy”
C R Acad. Sci. Ser. II Fasc. B-Mec. 324 (1997) 373-388

1996

J. Köhler, A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“On the intersystem crossing of pentacene in p-terphenyl”
Chem. Phys. Lett. 250 (1996) 137-144

A.C.J. Brouwer, J. Köhler, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“¹³C isotope effects for pentacene in p-terphenyl. High resolution spectroscopy and single-spin detection”
J. Chem. Phys. 105 (1996) 2212-2222

J. Wrachtrup, C. von Borczyskowski, J. Köhler, J. Schmidt
“Magnetic resonance of single molecular spins”
in:
“Single-Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy”
T. Basché, M. Orrit, W.E. Moerner, U.P. Wild (eds.), VCH, Weinheim (1996) 159-189

1995

J. Köhler, A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Single molecule electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy: Hyperfine splitting owing to a single nucleus”
Science 268 (1995) 1457-1460

H. van der Meer, J.A.J.M. Disselhorst, J. Köhler, A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“An insert for single-molecule magnetic-resonance spectroscopy in an external magnetic field”
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66 (1995) 4853-4856

1994

J. Köhler, A.C.J. Brouwer, E.J.J. Groenen, J. Schmidt
“Fluorescence detection of single molecule magnetic resonance for pentacene in p-terphenyl.
The hyperfine interaction of a single triplet spin with a single ¹³C nuclear spin”
Chem. Phys. Lett. 228 (1994) 47-52