Monday, April 19, 2010

The marriage of carbon nanotubes and metamaterial

Zheludev's group combined carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with metamaterials to engage the resonant local fields in the vicinity of the metamaterial, leading to enhanced nonlinearity. This is a smart idea! Redshift of the plasmon absorption resonance was observed in the CNT-functionalized metamaterial.

More details can be found in this paper:

A. E. Nikolaenko et al. Carbon nanotubes in a photonic metamaterial. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153902 (2010) [...]

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