Mesoscopic light transport by very strong collective multiple scattering in nanowire mats

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 413-418

  Strudley, Tom ^a   Zehender, Tilman ^b   Blejean, Claire ^a   Bakkers, Erik P A M ^b,c   Muskens, Otto L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; EXTREME CONDITIONS; MESOSCOPIC INTERFERENCE; MICROWAVE WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING LENGTH; SCATTERING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; THREE DIMENSIONS;

ACOUSTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 84877584758     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.62     Document Type: Article

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