Alignment dependent mechanical responses of carbon nanotubes to light

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Shaoxin ^a   Ahir, Samit V ^b   Terentjev, Eugene M ^b   Panchapakesan, Balaji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PHOTONS;

ACTUATOR APPLICATIONS; PHOTOMECHANICAL RESPONSES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34548488184     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2780059     Document Type: Article

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