Suspended nanowires: Fabrication, design and characterization of fibers with nanoscale cores

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2646-2657

  Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Warren Smith, Stephen C ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBERS; DRAWING OF OPTICAL FIBERS; EFFECTIVE MODE AREAS; EXTRUSION TECHNIQUES; LEAD SILICATE GLASS; OUTER DIAMETERS; PROPAGATION LOSS; SUSPENDED NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

GLASS FIBER; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 60549094056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002646     Document Type: Article

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