Growing Nanowires Horizontally Yields New Benefit: 'Nano-LEDs' (3 of 3) (image)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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This optical microscope image shows four rows of nanowires and their corresponding nanowalls, nicknamed "nano LEDs" because they emit light when electrically charged. The distance across the micrograph is approximately the diameter of a human hair.

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