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Rice University

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Rice University physicists have made unique broadband polarization rotators with ultrathin carbon nanotube films. The films optically rotate polarized light output by 90 degrees, but only when the input light's polarization is at a specific angle with respect to the nanotube alignment direction: the "magic angle."

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Kono Laboratory/Rice University

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