Metal nanoparticle based all-optical photothermal light modulator

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1893-1898

  Heber, André ^a   Selmke, Markus ^a   Cichos, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

absorption; all optical modulation; gold nanoparticle; liquid crystals; phase transition; photothermal effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894618255     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406389f     Document Type: Article

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