Walter Koste - a K-strategist? A laudatio -- Walter Koste - a K-strategist? A laudatio -- Phylogeny and Evolution -- On the phylogenetic position of Rotifera — have we come any further? -- Speciation and selection without sex -- Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of rotifer-acanthocephalan relationships -- Evolutionary dynamics of ‘the’ bdelloid and monogonont rotifer life-history p…
Organized Assemblies Probed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy -- The Combined Use of Fluorescence Spectroscopy and X-Ray Crystallography Greatly Contributes to Elucidating Structure and Dynamics of Proteins -- Tapered Fibers for Cell Studies -- Multi-Dimensional Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting -- Some Aspects of DNA Condensation Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy -- Luminescenc…
Optical Signal Recording -- Overview of Photon Counting Techniques -- Multidimensional TCSPC Techniques -- Building Blocks of Advanced TCSPC Devices -- Application of Modern TCSPC Techniques -- Detectors for Photon Counting -- Practice of TCSPC Experiments -- Final Remarks -- References.Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a remarkable technique for recording low-level light signal…
Maxwell's Equations, Photons and the Density of States -- Interaction of Light with Matter -- Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators -- The Concept of Polaritons -- Kramers-Kronig Relations -- Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons -- Electrons in a Periodic Crystal -- Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions -- Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations -- Optical Properties of Ph…
Preparation of Noble Metal Colloids and Selected Structures -- Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy: Alternative Modes of Use for NSOM Probes -- Nanoparticles with Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances -- Colloid Surface Chemistry -- Bioanalytical Sensing Using Noble Metal Colloids -- Theory of Fluorophore-Metallic Surface Interactions -- Surface-Enhancement of Fluorescence Near Noble …
An Introduction to Microscopy -- Electron Optics -- The Transmission Electron Microscope -- TEM Specimens and Images -- The Scanning Electron Microscope -- Analytical Electron Microscopy -- Recent Developments.Scanning and stationary-beam electron microscopes have become an indispensable tool for both research and routine evaluation in materials science, the semiconductor industry, nanotechnolo…
Optical Microscopy for Cell Imaging -- to Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy -- Potential and Limitation of Cytochemistry -- Cryotechniques for Electron Microscopy: A Minireview -- Cell Membrane Specializations as Revealed by the Freeze-Fracture Technique -- Imaging, Measuring and Manipulating Biological Matter from the Millimeter to Nanometer Scale -- Inside the Small Length and Ene…
1 Introduction -- 2 Metallic point contacts as a physical tool -- 3 Fundamentals of PCS theory -- 4 Experimental techniques -- 5 PCS of quasiparticle excitations -- 6 PCS of nonphononic scattering mechanisms -- 7 Thermal effects in point contacts -- 8 Point contacts in the magnetic field -- 9 Electrical fluctuations in point contacts -- 10 Point contacts under irradiation -- 11 PCS of semimetal…