A carbon nanotube optical rectenna

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1027-1032

  Sharma, Asha ^a,b   Singh, Virendra ^a   Bougher, Thomas L ^a   Cola, Baratunde A ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DIODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOANTENNAS; NANOTUBES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMONICS; RECTENNAS; YARN;

JUNCTION CAPACITANCES; METAL INSULATOR METALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; POWER RECTIFICATION; RECTIFICATION PROCESS; ROBUST OPERATION; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NANODEVICE; OPEN CIRCUIT CURRENT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL RECTENNA; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84949323629     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.220     Document Type: Article

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