Optical properties of ordered vertical arrays of multi-walled carbon nanotubes from FDTD simulations

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6347-6359

  Bao, Hua ^a   Ruan, Xiulin ^a   Fisher, Timothy S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; TITRATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ABSORBANCES; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; CYLINDER ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC TENSORS; DIFFRACTION AND SCATTERING; FDTD CALCULATIONS; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; INCIDENT ANGLES; LONG TUBES; MAXWELL-GARNETT THEORY; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; THERMAL RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; TOP SURFACE; TUBE LENGTH;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77949595939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006347     Document Type: Article

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