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Stanford University researchers have demonstrated the potential of single SiC whiskers to function as narrowband infrared emitters that have controllable emission characteristics.

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Figure 1: Infrared emission mediated by the thermal excitation of electromagnetic antenna modes.

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Hillenbrand, R., Aizpurua, J. Coloured heat. Nature Photon 3, 609–610 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.197

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