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Carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applicationsEdited by S Yamashita, University of Tokyo, Y Saito, Nagoya University, Japan and J H Choi, Purdue University, USA
Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials No. 47
- covers the properties and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applications
- considers the uses of carbon nanotubes and graphene for laser applications
- explores numerous carbon-based light emitters and detectors
The optical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene make them potentially suitable for a variety of photonic applications. Carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applications explores the properties of these exciting materials and their use across a variety of applications.
Part one introduces the fundamental optical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene before exploring how carbon nanotubes and graphene are synthesised. A further chapter focusses on nonlinearity enhancement and novel preparation approaches for carbon nanotube and graphene photonic devices. Chapters in part two discuss carbon nanotubes and graphene for laser applications and highlight optical gain and lasing in carbon nanotubes, carbon nanotube and graphene-based fiber lasers, carbon-nanotube-based bulk solid-state lasers, electromagnetic nonlinearities in graphene, and carbon nanotube-based nonlinear photonic devices. Finally, part three focusses on carbon-based optoelectronics and includes chapters on carbon nanotube solar cells, a carbon nanotube-based optical platform for biomolecular detection, hybrid carbon nanotube-liquid crystal nanophotonic devices, and quantum light sources based on individual carbon nanotubes.
Carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applications is a technical resource for materials scientists, electrical engineers working in the photonics and optoelectronics industry and academics and researchers interested in the field.
ISBN 0 85709 417 3
ISBN-13: 978 0 85709 417 9
August 2013
424 pages 234 x 156mm hardback
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About the editors
Shinji Yamashita is a Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Yahachi Saito is a Professor at the Department of Quantum Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan.
Jong Hyun Choi is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, USA.
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Contents
PART 1 OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND FABRICATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE
PART 2 CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE FOR LASER APPLICATIONS
PART 3 CARBON-BASED OPTOELECTRONICS
PART 1 OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND FABRICATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE
Fundamental optical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene
K Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan
- Introduction
- Basic optical properties of carbon nanotube
- Novel excitonic properties of carbon nanotube
- Conclusion
- References
Synthesis of carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applications
E Einarsson and S Maruyama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Introduction
- Synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)
- SWNT synthesis for photonic applications
- Graphene synthesis
- Conclusion and future trends
- References
Carbon nanotube and graphene photonic devices: nonlinearity enhancement and novel preparation approaches
Y-W Song, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea
- Introduction
- Nonlinearity of carbon nanotubes and graphene; saturable absorption
- Novel interaction schemes of propagating light with carbon nanostructures
- Highly efficient preparation of fiber mode-lockers
- Conclusion
- References
PART 2 CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE FOR LASER APPLICATIONS
Optical gain and lasing in carbon nanotubes
E Gaufrès, N Izard, A Noury, X Le Roux and L Vivien, CNRS - Univ Paris Sud, France
- Introduction
- Extraction of semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Towards carbon nanotubes-based lasers
- Optical gain in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)
- Conclusion
- References
Carbon nanotube and graphene-based fiber lasers
A Martinez and S Yamashita, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Introduction
- CNT and graphene saturable absorbers
- Mode-locked fiber lasers employing Graphene and CNTs
- Conclusion and future trends
- References
Carbon-nanotube-based bulk solid-state lasers
W B Cho and F Rotermund, Ajou University, South Korea
- Introduction
- Fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)-based saturable absorbers
- Device characteristics
- Mode-locking of bulk solid-state lasers
- Conclusion and future trends
- References
Electromagnetic nonlinearities in graphene
Sergey Mikhailov, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Introduction
- Electronic properties of graphene
- Linear electrodynamics of graphene
- Nonlinear electromagnetic response of graphene
- Conclusion and future trends
- Acknowledgments
- References
Carbon nanotube-based nonlinear photonic devices
K K Chow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Introduction
- Design and fabrication of carbon nanotube (CNT)-based nonlinear photonic devices
- Applications of CNT-based nonlinear photonic devices
- Conclusion
- References
PART 3 CARBON-BASED OPTOELECTRONICS
Carbon nanotube solar cells
B A Baker, H Zhang, T-G Cha and Jong Hyun Choi, Purdue University, USA
- Introduction
- Optoelectronic properties of carbon nanotubes
- Scope of the study
- Carbon nanotubes in solid state bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells
- Carbon nanotubes in liquid phase photoelectrochemical cells: donor–acceptor hybrids
- Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in photoactive layer of dye sensitized solar cells
- Carbon nanotubes as electrode materials in photovoltaic devices
- Developing technologies
- Conclusion and future trends
- Acknowledgement
- References
A carbon nanotube-based optical platform for biomolecular detection
J Pan, T-G Cha, H Chen, and Jong Hyun Choi, Purdue University, USA
- Introduction
- Optical sensing mechanism
- Carbon nanotube-based optical sensors for chemical and biological molecules
- Advanced optical sensing applications
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
Carbon nanotube-based photovoltaic and light-emitting diodes
L-M Peng, S Wang and Z Zhang, Peking University, China
- Introduction to carbon nanotube (CNT) diodes
- Doping-free fabrication and characteristics of CNT diodes
- Performance and optimization of CNT photovoltaic diodes
- Photovoltage multiplication in CNT diodes
- CNT-based light-emitting diodes
- Conclusion and future trends
- Acknowledgements
- References
Hybrid carbon nanotube-liquid crystal nanophotonic devices
T Wilkinson and H Butt, University of Cambridge, UK
- Introduction
- Uniform patterned growth of multiwall carbon nanotubes
- Simple optics of nematic liquid crystals
- Carbon nanotubes as electrode structures
- Reconfigurable microlens arrays
- Transparent nanophotonic devices
- Photonic bandgap structures using MWCNTs
- Towards photonic metamaterials
- Conclusion
- References
Quantum light sources based on individual carbon nanotubes
W Walden-Newman and S Strauf, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Introduction
- Exciton emission from individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT)
- Blinking and spectral diffusion phenomena in individual SWCNT
- Techniques to suppress and remove blinking and spectral diffusion
- Quantum light sources based on SWCNTs
- Conclusion and future trends
- Acknowledgement
- References