Resetting single nanoparticle structural phase with nanosecond pulses
- 23 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 91 (4)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2760174
Abstract
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.Keywords
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