ECE research: From Darkest Absorber to Reflective Mirror

As one of the darkest materials on earth, a “carbon nanotube forest” can absorb the entire visible range of electromagnetic waves more efficiently than any other known black material. A research team in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering led by Kenichi Takahata and Alireza Nojeh, with Tanveer Saleh, Mehran Vahdani Moghaddam, Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali, Masoud Dahmardeh, and Charles Alden Foell has transformed areas of this very dark forest into micro mirrors.

Read more at http://www.ece.ubc.ca/news/201209/darkest-absorber-reflective-mirror.