Can nanotubes make a lens array?

Abstract

Reflective binary Fresnel lenses fabricated so far all suffer from reflections from the opaque zones and hence degradation in focusing and lensing properties. Here a solution is found to this problem by developing a carbon nanotube Fresnel lens, where the darkest man-made material ever, i.e., low-density vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays, are exploited. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.