Exciton antennas and concentrators from core-shell and corrugated carbon nanotube filaments of homogeneous composition

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 833-839

  Han, Jae Hee ^a,b   Paulus, Geraldine L C ^a   Maruyama, Ryuichiro ^c   Heller, Daniel A ^a   Kim, Woo Jae ^d   Barone, Paul W ^a   Lee, Chang Young ^a,b   Choi, Jong Hyun ^e   Ham, Moon Ho ^a   Song, Changsik ^a   Fantini, C ^f   Strano, Michael S ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY HARVESTING; EXCITONS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOTUBES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOEMISSION; RECTENNAS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR POWER GENERATION; YARN;

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITION; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY HARVESTING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957127835     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2832     Document Type: Article

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