Highly birefringent vaterite microspheres: Production, characterization and applications for optical micromanipulation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21944-21955

  Parkin, Simon J ^a   Vogel, Robert ^a   Persson, Martin ^a   Funk, Maren ^a   Loke, Vincent L Y ^a   Nieminen, Timo A ^a   Heckenberg, Norman R ^a   Rubinsztein Dunlop, Halina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; MICROSPHERES; NANOCRYSTALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BEST FIT; HIGH ORIENTATION; HYPERBOLIC MODELS; OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL MICROMANIPULATION; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; VATERITE;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

MICROSPHERE; NANOPARTICLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSPHERES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 72449123199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021944     Document Type: Article

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