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Nanoantennas Used to Study Nonlinear Optical Effects

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STUTTGART, Germany, June 6, 2011 — For the first time, researchers are using nanoantennas to focus laser light on oscillating nanoparticles to investigate ultrafast nonlinear optical effects. When a short laser pulse is focused on nanoparticles, they heat up very briefly and start to vibrate. But even the best microscopes cannot resolve these nanoparticles, which are therefore very difficult to study. Now Markus Lippitz, assistant professor at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, and his PhD student Thorsten Schumacher have achieved a breakthrough using a gold nanoantenna that has already been applied...Read full article

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    Published: June 2011
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    Baden-WürttembergBasic ScienceDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftEuropeGermanyHarald Giessenlaser lightMarkus LippitzMax Planck Institute for Solid State ResearchMicroscopymirrorsnanonanoantennasnanogoldnanomechanicsnanosensornonlinear optical effectsOpticsoscillating nanoparticlesphotonics.comResearch & Technologysemiconductor quantum dotsSensors & Detectorsthe Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchThorsten SchumacherUniversity of StuttgartLasers

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