Nonlinear photoluminescence from multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4461, Issue , 2001, Pages 56-64

  Brennan, Margaret E ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   Panhuis, Marc In Het ^a   Kobayashi, Takeyuki ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Multiphoton absorption; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Photoluminescence; Up conversion luminescence

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0035767497     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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