A novel method for quantitative and structural determination of molecular complexes by photon antibunching [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Haisen Ta

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• Publié par: ruprecht-karls-universitat_heidelberg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 17
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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In memory of my grandmother

Acknowledgement

I owe everything to all the following people, who helped me on both my research work and daily life during my stay in Heidelberg. I can not imagine my life without their help and support.

I am very much grateful to my advisor, PD Dr. D.-P. Herten. Since I arrived at Heidelberg, his encouragement led me into this amazing field, his guidance enlightened the way of my research work and his support made me through all the difficulties during my study and research. His thoughtfulness made me feel very comfortable in my work and enjoy my life in a foreign country. Without him, it is not possible for me to come to this stage.

I thank Prof. Dr. J. Wolfrum and Prof. Dr. B. Bukau for giving me the chance to study in Heidelberg University.

I also thank Dr. A. Kiel, who helped me with the experiments and optical microscopes. And the discussions with him made me get into this field much easier and with more profound understandings.

I thank all the group members, Dr. K. Lymperopoulos, D. Barzan, J. Balbo, C. Spassova, T. Ehrhard, A. Kurz, A. Seefeld, Dr. K.-T. Han, Dr. P. Heinlein and so on. They gave me suggestions on research and helped me, who is a foreigner, with my daily life in Germany. Especially I thank Dr. C. Roth, who introduced Labview to me and gave me a lot of help on programming. I thank Dr. D. Siegberg, who helped me on the photostabilizing buffer. I also thank M. Schwering, who helped me on the labeling of DNA and also gave me many suggestions on my thesis. I thank A. Rybina and T. Lisauskas for their support during my thesis writing. I also thank Dr. Katharina Stoehr, who was the one I should have shared more time with.

I would like to thank Prof. Dr. M. Mayer, Dr. A. Mogk, Dr. G. Kramer, Dr. T. Haslberge and A. Sandikci for their collabrations during my Ph.D work.

I also thank Y. Wang for her proofreading of my thesis and support during my thesis writing.

I also thank the financial support of the Heinz Goetze Memorial Fellowship Program and Dr. D. Wuensche for her nice organization of the scholarship. I thank the financial support from Stipendien- und Betreuungsprogramm (STIBET) from DAAD during my dissertation preparation.

I owe a lot to my parents and my sister. Their unconditional love and support make me through all the difficulties and make me happy all the time no matter how far I am.

There are many many people having helped me in my Ph.D work, I can not list everyone here. Their help have benefited and will benefit me in my future research work and life.

Abbreviation

AOM APD APS BSA CCD CW DNA FIDA FIFO FLIM FRET FWHM HF HPLC IC IRF LEDs LM NA PCH

Acousto-Optic Modulator

Avalanche Photodiodes

amino-propyl silane

bovine serum albumin

Charge-Coupled Device

Continuous Wave

deoxyribonucleic acid

Fluorescence Intensity Distribution Analysis

First-In-First-Out Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Full Width at Half Maximum hydrofluoric acid

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Internal Conversion

Instrument Response Function

Light Emitting Diode

Levenberg-Marquardt

Numerical Aperture

Photon Counting Histogram

PLL PMT ROXS SMD SMFS SMS SPC TCSPC TIRF TTTR VR

poly-l lysine

Photomultiplier Tube

Reducing-Oxidizing System

Single Molecule Detection

Single-Molecule

Fluorescence

Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Single Photon Counting

Spectroscopy

Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting

Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy

Time-Tagged Time-Resolved

Vibrational Relaxation