Aligned carbon nanotubes as polarization-sensitive, molecular near-field detectors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2495-2499

  Cubukcu, Ertugrul ^a   Degirmenci, Fatih ^a   Kocabas, Coskun ^b   Zimmler, Mariano A ^a   Rogers, John A ^c   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical antenna; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANOIMAGING; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 62449210667     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812217106     Document Type: Article

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