Carbon Nanotubes as Optical Antennae

By K. Kempa, J. Rybczynski, Zhong Huang, K. Gregorczyk, A. Vidan, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, G. Benham, Yang Wang, A. Herczynski and 1 more. 2007

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Carbon nanotubes: synthesis, properties and engineering applications (2019, background): “CNT, therefore, belong to the scope of optical antennas where metallic nanostructures show high scattering/absorption efficiencies with incident light [137].”
Scalable Hybrid Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures for Multicore Systems (2011, methodology): “High directional gains of these antennas, demonstrated in [11], [34], aid in creating directed channels between source and destination pairs.”
Electromagnetic wireless nanosensor networks (2010, background): “and triggered the development of this new field [44].”
Channel Modeling and Capacity Analysis for Electromagnetic Wireless Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band (2011, unknown): “Index Terms —Nanonetworks, channel model, channel capacity, Terahertz Band, molecular electronics, graphene.”
Wireless NoC as Interconnection Backbone for Multicore Chips: Promises and Challenges (2012, background): “More-over excellent emission and absorption characteristics leading to antenna-like behavior in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) operating at optical frequencies have been observed recently [11].”