OPTICAL ANISOTROPY OF DISPERSED CARBON NANOTUBES INDUCED BY AN ELECTRIC-FIELD

Authors
BUBKE K GNEWUCH H HEMPSTEAD M HAMMER J GREEN MLH
Citation
K. Bubke et al., OPTICAL ANISOTROPY OF DISPERSED CARBON NANOTUBES INDUCED BY AN ELECTRIC-FIELD, Applied physics letters, 71(14), 1997, pp. 1906-1908
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
71
Issue
14
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1906 - 1908
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)71:14<1906:OAODCN>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Carbon nanotubes dispersed in ethanol are aligned by an electric field . Due to the orientation of these elongated particles, the dispersion exhibits anisotropic behavior. Transmission experiments show rotation of the linear polarization of an incident laser beam. Alignment and re laxation times and the influence of the magnitude of the electric fiel d have been measured. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.