Carbon nanotubes as optical antennae

Advanced Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 421-426

  Kempa, Krzysztof ^a   Rybczynski, Jakub ^a   Huang, Zhongping ^b   Gregorczyk, Keith ^c   Vidan, Andy ^c   Kimball, Brian ^c   Carlson, Joel ^c   Benham, Glynda ^d   Wang, Yang ^a   Herczynski, Andrzej ^a   Ren, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NanoLab Inc   (United States)

^c DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^d MegaWave Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MEASUREMENT THEORY;

MULTI-LOBE PATTERN; SIMULATED MAPS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34249931837     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200601187     Document Type: Article

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