• DocumentCode
    1771093
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989257