Optical and Loss Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes: Depolarization Effects and Intertube Interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Marinopoulos, A G ^a   Reining, Lucia ^a   Rubio, Angel ^b   Vast, Nathalie ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DEPOLARIZATION; INTERTUBE INTERACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0041819680     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.046402     Document Type: Article

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