Bright visible emission from carbon nanotubes spatially constrained on a micro-bubble

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9614-9619

  Ramanandan, Gopika ^a   Dharmadhikari, A K ^a   Dharmadhikari, J A ^a,c   Ramachandran, Hema ^b   Mathur, D ^a,c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NANOTUBES; YARN;

BROADBAND LIGHT; LIQUID ENVIRONMENT; LOCALIZED HEATING; MICRO-BUBBLE; OPTICALTRAPPING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); SPECTRAL RANGE; VISIBLE EMISSIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ILLUMINATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

LASERS; LIGHTING; MICROSPHERES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 66849106563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009614     Document Type: Article

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