Fluorescence intermittency

Fluorescence intermittency, or blinking, is the phenomenon of random switching between ON (bright) and OFF (dark) states of the emitter under its continuous excitation. It is a common property of the nanoscale emitters related to the competition between the radiative and non-radiative relaxation pathways. The peculiar feature of such blinking in most cases is the power-law statistics of the ON and OFF time distributions, meaning that the measurements of the time-averaged intensity of a single emitter is not reproducible in different experiments and implying a complex dynamics of the involved process. In other words, in one experiment the emitter can blink frequently, while in another it may stay ON for almost entire length of the experiment.

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