title: A method for determining the absorption ellipsoid of single conjugated polymer molecules and single luminescent nanoparticles.
abstract: We propose a simple method for the measurement of the absorption ellipsoid of luminescent nanoparticles. The method is based on a combination of far-field and near-field polarized excitation in a wide-field fluorescence microscope and provides the orientation and axes ratio r of a rotationally symmetric ellipsoid. Potential applications of the method including the study of conjugated polymer conformations are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ebihara
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vacha