Perkins Lab
Single Molecule Biophysics

Select Papers:
"Label-free optical imaging of membrane patches for atomic force microscopy" -- Optics Express (2010)
"Integrating a High-Force Optical Trap with Gold Nanoposts and a Robust Gold-DNA Bond" -- Nano Letters (2009)
"Precision Surface-Coupled Optical-Trapping Assay with One-Basepair Resolution" -- Biophysical Journal (2009)
"Ultrastable Atomic Force Microscopy: Atomic-Scale Stability and Registration in Ambient Conditions" -- Nano Letters (2009)
"Optical Traps for Single Molecule Biophysics: a primer" -- Laser & Phontonics Reviews (2009)
"Back-scattered detection provides atomic-scale localization precision, stability, and registration in 3D" -- Optics Express (2007)
"Elasticity of Short DNA molecules: theory and experiment for contour lengths of 0.6- 7 µ" -- Biophysical Journal (2007) -- New and Notable
"Stabilization of an optical microscope to 0.1 nm in 3D" -- Applied Optics (2007)
"Gold nanoparticles: enhanced optical trapping and sensitivity coupled with significant heating." -- Optics Letters (2006)
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309

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University of Colorado at Boulder
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