Hair-Thin Fibers with SiGe Core (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Hair-Thin Fibers with SiGe Core

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Ursula Gibson, a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, holds a glass fiber with a semiconductor core. Rapid heating and cooling of this kind of fiber allows the researchers to make functional materials with applications beyond traditional fiber optics.

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Nancy Bazilchuk

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