Resetting single nanoparticle structural phase with nanosecond pulses

The authors demonstrate that transitions from high temperature phases to low temperature phases in a gallium nanoparticle can be stimulated by nanosecond optical pulses, and explain how this phenomenon could be used in a single nanoparticle all-optical memory.

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Main Authors: Soares, B.F (Author), MacDonald, K.F (Author), Zheludev, N.I (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2007-07-23.
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