Strong anisotropy in the far-infrared absorption spectra of stretch-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1166-1169

  Akima, Nima ^a   Iwasa, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Brown, Sonal ^c   Barbour, Andi M ^c   Cao, Jinbo ^c   Musfeldt, Janice L ^c   Matsui, Hiroshi ^d   Toyota, Naoki ^d   Shiraishi, Masashi ^e   Shimoda, Hideo ^f   Zhou, Otto ^f  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBES; LASER ABLATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HE-NE LASER EXCITATION SOURCE; POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 33646508142     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200502505     Document Type: Article

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