Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Polarizer

Autor: Ren, L., Pint, C. L., Booshehri, L. G., Rice, W. D., Wang, X., Hilton, D. J., Takeya, K., Kawayama, I., Tonouchi, M., Hauge, R. H., Kono, J.
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Nano Letters 9, 2610 (2009)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/nl900815s
Popis: We describe a film of highly-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes that acts as an excellent terahertz linear polarizer. There is virtually no attenuation (strong absorption) when the terahertz polarization is perpendicular (parallel) to the nanotube axis. From the data we calculated the reduced linear dichrosim to be 3, corresponding to a nematic order parameter of 1, which demonstrates nearly perfect alignment as well as intrinsically anisotropic terahertz response of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the film.
Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures
Databáze: arXiv