Dynamical color-controllable lasing with extremely wide tuning range from red to green in a single alloy nanowire using nanoscale manipulation

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4945-4950

  Liu, Zhicheng ^a   Yin, Leijun ^a   Ning, Hao ^a   Yang, Zongyin ^b   Tong, Limin ^b   Ning, Cun Zheng ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

alloy composition graded nanowire; Cadmium sulfide selenide; dynamic color tuning; multicolor laser; nanowire manipulation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHTING; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; COLOR TUNING; GENERAL LIGHTINGS; MULTI-COLOR DETECTION; NANOSCALE MANIPULATIONS; SELENIDES; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE; WIDE TUNING RANGE;

COLOR;

ALLOY; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT;

ALLOYS; COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOWIRES;

EID: 84885465078     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl4029686     Document Type: Article

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