Directional visible light scattering by silicon nanoparticles

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fu, Yuan Hsing ^a   Kuznetsov, Arseniy I ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^b   Yu, Ye Feng ^a   Luk'yanchuk, Boris ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; SILICON NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIGHT EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SILICON; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTH;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84874592592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2538     Document Type: Article

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