Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Researchers at Rice University make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements

Here is a very interesting report that might indeed be interesting to characterize ALD growth in-situ ultra fast at optical frequencies!

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Rice University have discovered a new way to make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements at optical frequencies on high-speed nanoscale electronic components.The research at Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) is described online in a new study in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano ("Charge Transfer Plasmons: Optical Frequency Conductances and Tunable Infrared Resonances"). In a series of experiments, LANP researchers linked pairs of puck-shaped metal nanodisks with metallic nanowires and showed how the flow of current at optical frequencies through the nanowires produced "charge transfer plasmons" with unique optical signatures.



Linked pairs of nanodisks as seen with a scanning electron microscope. (Image: Fangfang Wen/Rice University)


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