Light torque nanocontrol, nanomotors and nanorockers

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 984-989

  Bonin, Keith D ^a   Kourmanov, Bakhit ^a   Walker, Thad G ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GLASS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ROTATION; VISCOSITY;

LIGHT TORQUE; NANOMOTORS; NANOROCKERS; TRAPPING;

TORQUE CONTROL;

EID: 0242422949     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000984     Document Type: Article

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