Michael Barnes "Nantenna" Work Gains National Tech Press at APS Meeting

The May 2005 issue of APS News (Volume 15, number 5) featured news from the March 2005 APS meeting held in Los Angeles. Prof. Mike Barnes' work on nanosized "antennae" ("nantennae") was featured prominently in the article, which describe futuristic research on quantum dots and related quantum level electronic and photonic phenomena. The article notes that work such as Mike's has potential applications for quantum-level computing and networks.

For more about work in the Barnes group, see a fall 2004 article in UMass Magazine, "The Future of Small".

For APS members with login subscriptions, see the APS WWW site at http://www.aps.org/apsnews.

Individual nantennae oriented perpendicular to plane of observation, created by deposition of luminescent conducting polymers under highly dilute conditions. (See the Barnes' group WWW site.)

(5/16/2005)