Iridescence of patterned carbon nanotube forests on flexible substrates: From darkest materials to colorful films

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1327-1336

  Hsieh, Kun Che ^a   Tsai, Tsung Yen ^b   Wan, Dehui ^a   Chen, Hsuen Li ^a   Tai, Nyan Hwa ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs); Darkest material; Flexible substrates; Inverse nanosphere lithography; Iridescence

Indexed keywords

CNT FILMS; COLORFUL IMAGES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; HOLE PATTERNS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INVERSE NANOSPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; POLYCARBONATE SUBSTRATES; ROUGH SURFACES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

CARBON FILMS; FILM PREPARATION; MATERIALS; NANOSPHERES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77950163860     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901910h     Document Type: Article

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