Carbon nanotube arrays: IR properties and potential sensing applications

Jing Ming Xu

doi:10.1117/12.453524

11 November 2002 Carbon nanotube IR properties and applications

Jing Ming Xu

Proceedings Volume 4823, Photonics for Space Environments VIII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453524
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2002, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

Over just one decade since the chance discovery (or re-discovery) by Iijima, carbon nanotubes have attracted much interest from the science and technology communities, and have accumulated a vast array of claimed or likely applications. In the area of electronics, there is no shortage of remarkable and clever demonstrations of functional devices and logic gates. In the area of electro-optics, nanotubes have received much less attention but have perhaps as great potential. This article reviews some of our explorations on this new frontier of electro-optics, following a brief introduction of the basic nanotube properties, and summarizes the key findings of the electro-optic, and IR in particular, properties of nanotubes. It then highlights a few new and potentially promising directions in which future nanotube research could extended. The emphasis of this review paper will be on the basic physical principles underlying the experimental findings and device explorations, rather than on the device and structure specific data.

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Jing Ming Xu "Carbon nanotube IR properties and applications", Proc. SPIE 4823, Photonics for Space Environments VIII, (11 November 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453524

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