Evidence of anisotropic metallic behaviour in the optical properties of carbon nanotubes

Solid State Communications

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 513-517

  Bommeli, F ^a   Degiorgi, L ^a   Wachter, P ^a   Bacsa, W S ^b   De Heer, W A ^b   Forro, L ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

A. fullerenes; A. nanostructures; D. optical properties

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CARBON; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FULLERENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPIC METALLIC BEHAVIOUR; CARBON NANOTUBES; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; MAXWELL-GARNETT EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL; REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0030215844     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-1098(98)00161-6     Document Type: Article

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