Yang, Zu-Po and Ci, Lijie and Bur, James A. and Lin, Shawn-Yu and Ajayan, Pulickel M. (2008) Experimental observation of an extremely dark material made by a low-density nanotube array. NANO LETTERS, 8 (2). pp. 446-451.
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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl072369t
Abstract
An ideal black material absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths. Here, we show that low-density vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays can be engineered to have an extremely low index of refraction, as predicted recently by theory (Garcia-Vidal, F. J.; Pitarke, J. M.; Pendry, J. B. Phys. Rev. Leff. 1997, 78, 42894292] and, combined with the nanoscale surface roughness of the arrays, can produce a near-perfect optical absorption material. An ultralow diffused reflectance of 1 X 10(-7) measured from such arrays is an order-of-magnitude lower compared to commercial low-reflectance standard carbon. The corresponding integrated total reflectance of 0.045% from the nanotube arrays is three times lower than the lowest-ever reported values of optical reflectance from any material, making it the darkest man-made material ever.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Material Science > Functional and hybrid materials |
| ID Code: | 231 |
| Deposited By: | Lesley Tobin |
| Deposited On: | 18 Dec 2008 16:24 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2009 17:18 |
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