Near-field interferometry of a free-falling nanoparticle from a point-like source

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bateman, James ^a   Nimmrichter, Stefan ^b   Hornberger, Klaus ^b   Ulbricht, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

OPTICAL METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COOLING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEAR FIELD INTERFEROMETRY; PREDICTION; REFRACTION INDEX; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84907359888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5788     Document Type: Article

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