Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Measurement of complex optical susceptibility for individual carbon nanotubes by elliptically polarized light excitation

  • Fengrui Yao,
  • Can Liu,
  • Cheng Chen,
  • Shuchen Zhang,
  • Qiuchen Zhao,
  • Fajun Xiao,
  • Muhong Wu,
  • Jiaming Li,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Jianlin Zhao,
  • Xuedong Bai,
  • Shigeo Maruyama,
  • Dapeng Yu,
  • Enge Wang,
  • Zhipei Sun,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Kaihui Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05932-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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One-dimensional materials such as carbon nanotubes have many applications, but not all of their properties can be described in the same way as for conventional media. Here, the authors devise a method to measure the complex optical susceptibility in a 1D nanomaterial and demonstrate it for carbon nanotubes.