Silicon-in-silica spheres via axial thermal gradient in-fibre capillary instabilities

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gumennik, Alexander ^a   Wei, Lei ^a   Lestoquoy, Guillaume ^a,b   Stolyarov, Alexander M ^a   Jia, Xiaoting ^a   Rekemeyer, Paul H ^c   Smith, Matthew J ^c   Liang, Xiangdong ^a   Grena, Benjamin J B ^a,c   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Gradečak, Silvija ^c   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^d   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER; NANOSPHERE; SILICON;

CAPILLARITY; SILICA; SILICON; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEATING; ISOTHERM;

EID: 84881337547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3216     Document Type: Article

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