Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

P Jiang, X Qian, R Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

Dispersion and alignment of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrix: a review

XL Xie, YW Mai, XP Zhou - Materials science and engineering: R: Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
Polymer/carbon nanotube (CNT) composites are expected to have good processability
characteristics of the polymer and excellent functional properties of the CNTs. The critical …

Nanotube–polymer composites for ultrafast photonics

T Hasan, Z Sun, F Wang, F Bonaccorso… - Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer composites are one of the most attractive near‐term means to exploit the unique
properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. This is particularly true for composites aimed …

Carbon-nanotube photonics and optoelectronics

P Avouris, M Freitag, V Perebeinos - Nature photonics, 2008 - nature.com
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are nearly ideal one-dimensional (1D) systems, with diameters of
only 1–3 nm and lengths that can be on the scale of centimetres. Depending on the …

Big returns from small fibers: a review of polymer/carbon nanotube composites

O Breuer, U Sundararaj - Polymer composites, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews recent studies conducted on carbon nanotube/polymer composites.
Carbon nanotubes are promising new materials for blending with polymers with potential to …

Light‐induced tuning and reconfiguration of nanophotonic structures

SV Makarov, AS Zalogina, M Tajik… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Interaction of light pulses of various durations and intensities with nanoscale photonic
structures plays an important role in many applications of nanophotonics for high‐density …

Carbon nanotube composites

PJF Harris - International materials reviews, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes of graphitic carbon with outstanding
properties. They are among the stiffest and strongest fibres known, with Young's moduli as …

Laser mode locking using a saturable absorber incorporating carbon nanotubes

SY Set, H Yaguchi, Y Tanaka… - Journal of lightwave …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
This paper describes a new class of saturable absorber device based on single-wall carbon
nanotube (SWNT)-the saturable absorber incorporating nano tube (SAINT). The device …

Tm-doped fiber laser mode-locked by graphene-polymer composite

M Zhang, EJR Kelleher, F Torrisi, Z Sun, T Hasan… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate mode-locking of a thulium-doped fiber laser operating at 1.94 μm, using a
graphene-polymer based saturable absorber. The laser outputs 3.6 ps pulses, with∼ 0.4 nJ …

[PDF][PDF] The present status and key problems of carbon nanotube based polymer composites

JH Du, J Bai, HM Cheng - Express Polymer Letters, 2007 - expresspolymlett.com
The state-of-art and key problems of carbon nanotube (CNT) based polymer composites
(CNT/polymer composites) including CNT/polymer structural composites and CNT/polymer …