Extreme darkness: Carbon nanotube forest covers NIST's ultra-dark detector

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 13:07 in Physics & Chemistry

Harnessing darkness for practical use, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a laser power detector coated with the world's darkest material -- a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflects almost no light across the visible and part of the infrared spectrum.

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