One-dimensional surface phonon polaritons in boron nitride nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Xiaoji G ^a   Ghamsari, Behnood G ^b   Jiang, Jian Hua ^a   Gilburd, Leonid ^a   Andreev, Gregory O ^c   Zhi, Chunyi ^d   Bando, Yoshio ^e   Golberg, Dmitri ^e   Berini, Pierre ^b   Walker, Gilbert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Bruker Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHONON; SIMULATION; SURFACE PHONON POLARITON;

EID: 84907377437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5782     Document Type: Article

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