Nanoparticles: Switching blinking on and off.
Diamonds with a diameter of just 5 nm are capable of supporting colour centres and emitting fluorescence, and encapsulating these nanodiamonds in a polymer stops them blinking.
Wrachtrup
Joerg
J
Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany. wrachtrup@physik.uni-stuttgart.de
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