Resonant Raman spectroscopy of individual metallic and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes under uniaxial strain

S. B. Cronin,1,2 A. K. Swan,3 M. S. Ünlü,3,4 B. B. Goldberg,3,4 M. S. Dresselhaus,5,6 and M. Tinkham2 1Department of Electrical Engineering — Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 4Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 5Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 6Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Received 14 February 2005; published 8 July 2005