Plasmonic band gaps and waveguide effects in carbon nanotube arrays based metamaterials

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 9138-9143

  Butt, Haider ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Rajesekharan, Ranjith ^a   Wilkinson, Timothy D ^a   Amaratunga, Gehan A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC)   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube arrays; metamaterials; optical waveguides; plasmonic band gaps

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLES; HIGHLY DENSE; LINE DEFECTS; LOW-DENSITY PLASMAS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL WINDOW; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLASMONIC BAND GAPS;

CARBON; ENERGY GAP; LATTICE CONSTANTS; METAMATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; WAVEGUIDES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 81855177345     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203363x     Document Type: Article

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