Optical detection of radio waves through a nanomechanical transducer

Nature

Volumn 507, Issue 7490, 2014, Pages 81-85

  Bagci, T ^a   Simonsen, A ^a   Schmid, S ^b   Villanueva, L G ^b   Zeuthen, E ^a   Appel, J ^a   Taylor, J M ^c   Sorensen A ^a   Usami, K ^a   Schliesser, A ^a   Polzik, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNITUDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MEMBRANE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIO WAVE; RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 84895872271     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13029     Document Type: Article

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