Intersubband plasmon excitations in doped carbon nanotubes

Plasmon excitations in carbon nanotubes

Electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a high-resolution transmission electron microscope can be used to study the excitation of plasmons in nanometre-size particles with high spatial resolution. For isotropic particles of various shapes, models which allow the attribution of the experimental peaks to a certain excitation mechanism and to understand sizeor geometry-dependent variations are...

Plasmon excitations in graphitic carbon spheres

Electron energy loss spectroscopy in a high-resolution transmission electron microscope has recently been used with success to characterize the electronic properties of closed cage nanometer-size graphitic particles. In the plasmon region, the experimental data reveal interesting size-dependent variations, which are not yet fully understood. The difficulties encountered in the interpretation of...

Plasmon Excitations in Carbon Onions: ~odelvs.~easurements

Non-relativistic local dielectric response theory has proven successful in the interpretation of Electron Energy Loss data of nanometer-size isotropic particles of different geometries. In previous work, we have adapted this model to take into account anisotropy as encountered in the case of carbon onions. We have shown that this anisotropy needs to be taken into account since important deviati...

Intersubband decay of 1-D exciton resonances in carbon nanotubes.

We have studied intersubband decay of E22 excitons in semiconducting carbon nanotubes experimentally and theoretically. Photoluminescence excitation line widths of semiconducting nanotubes with chiral indicess (n,m) can be mapped onto a connectivity grid with curves of constant (n - m) and (2n + m). Moreover, the global behavior of E22 line widths is best characterized by a strong increase with...

Fractional Flux Periodicity in doped carbon nanotubes