Abstract
Raman scattering is used to study the pressure-dependence of the radial (R) bands of bundled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) produced by the HiPCO process. We find that the normalized pressure derivative of the R-band frequency, increases with increasing nanotube diameter D as Using results from elastic theory, we show that the contribution to Φ from isolated SWNT, is small, which agrees with previous model calculations. We show here that is independent of D. We conclude that most of the pressure dependence observed for the R bands in SWNT bundles may be identified with tube wall deformations mediated via tube-tube interactions within a bundle and not with the compression of an individual tube.
- Received 17 October 2003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.68.241406
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