Alkaline niobate nanowires as opto-mechanical probes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8458, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dutto, Fabrizia ^a,b   Radenovic, Aleksandra ^a,b  

^a Bioengineering Institute   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alkaline niobate nanowires; Chemical synthesis; NaNbO3 KNbO3 LiNbO 3; Optical trapping; SHG; Torque; Waveguiding

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE NIOBATE; CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; NANBO3 KNBO3 LINBO 3; OPTICALTRAPPING; SHG; WAVEGUIDING;

BIREFRINGENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROMANIPULATORS; MOLECULES; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PEROVSKITE; POTASSIUM; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SODIUM; TORQUE; WAVEGUIDES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84872069548     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.929466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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