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Nature Photonics 3, 609 - 610 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.197
Light sources: Coloured heat
Rainer Hillenbrand1 & Javier Aizpurua2
- Rainer Hillenbrand is at the Nanooptics Laboratory, CIC nanoGUNE, and Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science), 20018 Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain
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Javier Aizpurua is at the Centro de Física de Materiales, and Donostia International Physics Center, 20018 Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain.
e-mail: aizpurua@ehu.es; e-mail: r.hillenbrand@nanogune.eu
Abstract
Stanford University researchers have demonstrated the potential of single SiC whiskers to function as narrowband infrared emitters that have controllable emission characteristics.

