Polymorphic nanoparticles as all-optical memory elements

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10652-10656

  Scares, B F ^a   Bashevoy, M V ^a   Jonsson, F ^a   MacDonald, K F ^a   Zheludev, N I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILMS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

LIGHT INDUCED TRANSFORMATIONS; LOGIC STATE; STRUCTURAL PHASES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33750689494     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010652     Document Type: Article

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