Nonlinear optical properties of carbon nanotube hybrids in polymer dispersions

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 992-997

  Wang, Jun ^a   Liao, Kang Shyang ^b   Früchtl, Daniel ^c   Tian, Ying ^d   Gilchrist, Aisling ^c   Alley, Nigel J ^b   Andreoli, Enrico ^b   Aitchison, Brad ^d   Nasibulin, Albert G ^d   Byrne, Hugh J ^e   Kauppinen, Esko I ^d   Zhang, Long ^a   Blau, Werner J ^c   Curran, Seamus A ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube hybrids; Nonlinear scattering; Optical limiting; Z scan

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE HYBRIDS; CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON DONORS; FUNCTIONALIZED; ISOTHIOCYANATES; METALLIC NANOTUBES; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; OPTICAL LIMITING; ORGANIC CHROMOPHORES; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; POLYMER DISPERSIONS; PRIMARY MECHANISM; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; RHODAMINE B; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; THERMALLY INDUCED; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY; Z-SCAN;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; DYES; FULLERENES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84862815174     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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