A Nanophotonic Structure Containing Living Photosynthetic Bacteria

Photosynthetic apparatus of purple bacteria.

3. Excitation transfer in the PSU 18 3.1 Electronic excitations of BChls 22 3.1.1 Individual BChls 22 3.1.2 Rings of BChls 22 3.1.2.1 Exciton states 22 3.1.3 Effective Hamiltonian 24 3.1.4 Optical properties 25 3.1.5 The effect of disorder 26 3.2 Theory of excitation transfer 29 3.2.1 General theory 29 3.2.2 Mechanisms of excitation transfer 32 3.2.3 Approximation for long-range transfer 34 3.2...

Noncyclic photophosphorylation in photosynthetic bacteria.

Reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria.

Nanophotonic Slow-Light Structure For Telecommunication Applications

In this thesis, the delay performance of slow light optical pulses inside PCWs is considered in the linear and nonlinear propagation regime from both a theoretical and an application point of view. It is numerically shown that for rates of 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s, nonlinear solitary pulses experience less broadening than the linear case and can therefore be used to obtain larger delays. The storage ...

Telomeric repeat-containing RNA structure in living cells.

Telomeric repeat-containing RNA (referred to as TERRA), a noncoding RNA molecule, has recently been found in mammalian cells. The detailed structural features and function of the TERRA RNA at human chromosome ends remain unclear, although this RNA molecule may be a key component of the telomere machinery. In the present studies, we investigated the structural features of human TERRA RNA in livi...