Receiving and transmitting light-like radio waves: Antenna effect in arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2607-2609

  Wang, Y ^a   Kempa, K ^a   Kimball, B ^b   Carlson, J B ^b   Benham, G ^c   Li, W Z ^d   Kempa, T ^a   Rybczynski, J ^a   Herczynski, A ^a   Ren, Z F ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^c MegaWave Corporation   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNA; FIBER OPTIC SPECTROMETER (FOS); PLASMA DISCHARGE; RADIO ANTENNAS; SCATTERING RATE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; RADIO WAVES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON WAFERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 7544226433     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1797559     Document Type: Article

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