Nanofiber drawing and nanodevice assembly in poly(trimethylene terephthalate)

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10815-10822

  Xing, Xiaobo ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Li, Baojun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; NANOFIBERS; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

GUIDING PROPERTIES; LENGTH UNIFORMITIES; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED REGION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLY (TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE); QUANTITATIVE STUDY; ULTRACOMPACT DEVICE;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

NANOTUBE; POLY(TRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE); POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; PHOTONS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

EID: 47249154812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010815     Document Type: Article

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