Charge-compensated, semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube thin film as an electrically configurable optical medium

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 459-465

  Wang, Feihu ^a   Itkis, Mikhail E ^a   Bekyarova, Elena ^a   Haddon, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATION; ELECTROCHROMICS; ELECTROMODULATION; EXCITONIC TRANSITION; OPTICAL MEDIUM; SMART WINDOWS; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

IONIC LIQUIDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; THIN FILMS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84878696048     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.66     Document Type: Article

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