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Engineers Create Vibrant Colors In Vertical Silicon Nanowires

Posted April 04, 2011 11:15 AM

From EurekAlert!:

Engineers may soon be singing, "I'm going to wash that gray right out of my nanowires," thanks to a colorful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies. In contrast to the somber gray hue of silicon wafers, Kenneth B. Crozier and colleagues demonstrated that individual, vertical silicon nanowires can shine in all colors of the spectrum.

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04/05/2011 11:40 AM

I fail to see why they should be surprised by this result, these extremely fine nanowires act like the grating found in modern hand held spectoscopes, so what else did they expect?
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04/05/2011 8:17 PM

I wondered the same thing, but then I remembered, it's Harvard. Everything they do there is a breakthrough.

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