News Release 07-053 - Video

Nanowire Laser

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Chemist Peidong Yang, the winner of the National Science Foundation's 2007 Alan T. Waterman award, led the development of a nanowire laser that fires ultraviolet light. Yang and his colleagues grew the wire as part of an array using novel, efficient techniques.

Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation

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