Photonics with multiwall carbon nanotube arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1238-1248

  Lidorikis, Elefterios ^a   Ferrari, Andrea C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Deep UV photonics; Effective medium theory; Nanotube array; Photonic crystal; Ultrablack materials

Indexed keywords

ANTICROSS; BRAGG GAPS; BRAGG SCATTERING; COMPLEX PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; DEEP UV PHOTONICS; DEEP-UV; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NANOTUBE ARRAY; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; OPTICAL ABSORBERS; PHOTON ENERGY; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; PHOTONIC BANDS; PHOTONIC PROPERTIES; PLASMON BAND; ULTRABLACK MATERIALS;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GRAPHITE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 66949140698     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900123a     Document Type: Article

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