ABSTRACT
The Essence of Time-Resolved Imaging ..................................................... 213 Luminescence Lifetimes......................................................................... 213 Basics of Time-Gated Fingerprint Detection....................................... 214 Basics of Phase-Resolved Imaging ........................................................ 216
Fingerprint Treatments................................................................................. 218 Lanthanide-Based Procedures ............................................................... 218 Photoluminescent Semiconductor Nanocomposites........................... 220
CdS Nanocrystals ............................................................................ 222 CdS/Dendrimer Nanocomposites .................................................. 225 Diimide Mediation of Fingerprint Development with CdS/Dendrimer Nanocomposites .................................................. 230 Incorporation of Lanthanide Complexes into Dendrimers......... 233 Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals ................................................... 234
Ongoing Investigations.......................................................................... 237 References ...................................................................................................... 238
The exploitation of photoluminescence as a general approach to the detection of latent fingerprints began in 1976.
