Title :
Terahertz surface plasmon polaritons on freestanding multi-walled carbon nanotube aerogel sheets
Author :
Shuchang Liu ; Nguyen, T.D. ; Lima, Marcio D. ; Fang, Shao-Yun ; Baughman, Ray H. ; Nahata, Ajay ; Vardeny, Z. Valy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate that multi-walled carbon nanotubes exhibit highly anisotropic terahertz polarization behavior. We accomplish this by measuring the complex index of refraction of planar and periodically perforated carbon nanotube sheets for two orthogonal nanotube orientations.
Keywords :
aerogels; multi-wall carbon nanotubes; polaritons; refractive index; surface plasmons; C; anisotropic terahertz polarization; freestanding multiwalled carbon nanotube aerogel sheet; orthogonal nanotube orientation; periodically perforated carbon nanotube sheet; planar perforated carbon nanotube sheet; refractive index; terahertz surface plasmon polaritons; Apertures; Arrays; Carbon nanotubes; Optical films; Optical polarization; Optical refraction;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
