Effective medium theory of the optical properties of aligned carbon nanotubes

Details Effective medium theory of the optical properties of aligned carbon nanotubes Effective medium theory of the optical properties of aligned carbon nanotubes

1997-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705110v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages(LaTeX),3 figs (ps files),to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4289

We present an effective medium theory in order to analyze the reported optical properties of aligned carbon nanotube films (W.A. de Heer et al., Science 268, 845 (1995)). This methodology is based on photonic band structure calculations and allows treatment of complex media consisting of particles that interact strongly. We also develop a simple Maxwell-Garnett type approach for studying this system. In comparing the results of both mean field theories, we demonstrate that the inclusion of the full electromagnetic coupling between the nanotubes, as our numerical scheme does, is necessary for a complete explanation of the experimental data.

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