Title :
Chirality dependence of absorption in carbon nanotubes
Author :
Ermin Malic;Matthias Hirtschulz;Frank Milde;A. Knorr;Stephanie Reich
Author_Institution :
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139-4307, USA
fDate :
5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We present an analytical approach to the optical absorption in arbitrary carbon nanotubes. We show the chirality dependence of the absorption coefficient to be the result from both the JDOS and the optical matrix element.
Keywords :
"Absorption","Carbon nanotubes","Optical scattering","Optical refraction","Electron optics","Spectroscopy","Optical polarization","Materials science and technology","Chemical elements","Raman scattering"
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS ´07
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431129
