US Patent 7899301 - CNT antenna array

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This patent from inventor Robert Crowley has early priority (1997) and includes basic claims to nanotubes in antennas devices or otherwise used to modify electromagnetic energy. Claims 1 and 8 read:

1. A nanotube device comprising:

a substrate for supporting an aligned array of electromagnetic energy modifying nanotubes thereon;

an array of electromagnetic energy modifying nanotubes on said substrate arranged for the receipt and modification of electromagnetic radiation.


8. A first nanotube arranged to receive and modify electromagnetic energy applied thereto.