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Organizing nanowires

An optoelectronic method for sorting nanowires of different compositions and assembling them into reconfigurable arrays could be important for creating future nanodevices.

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Figure 1: A light pattern defined by a programmable spatial light modulator can be used to position and align nanowires.

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Rogers, J. Organizing nanowires. Nature Photon 2, 69–70 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.286

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