US gets new photonics centre
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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To create nanowires, a silica wire is wrapped around a sapphire taper (left) which is then held over a flame. As the wire reaches temperatures of about 1700 o C, this wire is drawn along the taper, elongating and narrowing it. The resulting strand (on the right) is not only ultra thin, but has a hig