The majority of the world energy consumption is derived from fossil fuels. The conversion
reactions required for retrieving energy from carbon resources result in the production of …

The advent of negative index materials has spawned extensive research into metamaterials
over the past decade. Metamaterials are attractive not only for their exotic electromagnetic …

Light is a powerful and sustainable resource, but it can be detrimental to the performance
and longevity of optical devices. Materials with near-zero light reflectance, ie superblack …

Pyroelectric infrared detectors (PIRDs) have a number of advantages over other IR sensors,
including room-temperature operation, wide wavelength sensitivity, and low cost, leading to …

A review is made of the physics and technology of spectrally selective thermal detectors,
especially those operating at non-cryogenic temperatures. The background radiation noise …

Coatings comprising carbon nanotubes are very black, that is, characterized by uniformly
low reflectance over a broad range of wavelengths from the visible to far infrared. Arguably …

Vertically aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes were grown by water-assisted chemical vapor
deposition on a large-area lithium tantalate pyroelectric detector. The processing …

In this paper we report for the first time, the photoconductivity of large area sheets of single
wall carbon nanotube upon laser illumination. The photoconductivity exhibited an increase …

This work investigates the reflection and scattering from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes,
fabricated on silicon substrate using thermally enhanced chemical vapor deposition with …

We study the laser irradiance behavior and resulting structural evolution of polymer-derived
silicon–boron–carbonitride (Si (B) CN) functionalized multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) …