Electrodynamics of periodic arrays of carbon nanotubes

Author

Nefedov, Igor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Helsinki, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper electromagnetic properties of periodic arrays of single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes (CNs) are presented. Semiclassical model, based on periodic Green´s function, which takes into account electromagnetic interaction between nanotubes, is developed. Quantum properties of nanotubes are taken into account via the complex conductance. Propagating and evanescent eigenwaves in infinitely long CNs are studied. Strong dependence of the slow-wave factor on the transversal wave vector and considerably low attenuation is demonstrated. A plane wave transmission through a slab of CNs at terahertz frequencies is considered.

Keywords

Green´s function methods; carbon nanotubes; electrodynamics; optical materials; slow light; C; Green function; electromagnetic interaction; evanescent eigenwaves; single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes; slow-wave factor; Biomedical optical imaging; Carbon nanotubes; Conducting materials; Electrodynamics; Frequency; Microwave devices; Nanostructured materials; Optical surface waves; Organic materials; Thermal conductivity; arrayed carbon nanotubes; slow waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185295

Filename

5185295