Optical properties of carbon nanofiber photonic crystals
Journal article, 2010
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are used as components of planar photonic crystals. Square and rectangular lattices and random patterns of vertically aligned CNFs were fabricated and their properties studied using ellipsometry. We show that detailed information such as symmetry directions and the band structure of these novel materials can be extracted from considerations of the polarization state in the specular beam. The refractive index of the individual nanofibers was found to be nCNF = 4.1.
Author
Robert Rehammar
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
R Magnusson
Linköping University
A.I. Fernandez-Dominguez
Imperial College London
H Arwin
Linköping University
Jari Kinaret
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
S. A. Maier
Imperial College London
Eleanor E.B. Campbell
University of Edinburgh
Konkuk University
Published in
Nanotechnology
0957-4484 (ISSN) 1361-6528 (eISSN)
Vol. 21 Issue 46 art. no 465203Categorizing
Areas of Advance
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
DOI
10.1088/0957-4484/21/46/465203