An antenna array that is metres high and wide can detect and transmit radio waves. This effect has now been demonstrated at much smaller electromagnetic wavelengths in a nanoscale array of carbon nanotubes.
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Dresselhaus, M. Nanotube antennas. Nature 432, 959–960 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/432959a
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