Friday 11 November 2011

Sailing plasmonic NP

Plasmonic Nanoparticle Chain in a Light Field: A Resonant Optical Sail.
Silvia Albaladejo, Juan José Sáenz, and Manuel I. Marqués
Nano Lett 11, 4597 (2011)
We propose to use a chain made of metallic nanoparticles as a resonant light sail, attached by one end point to a transparent object and propelling it by the use of electromagnetic radiation.

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