Abstract
This work reports how resonance Raman experiments are used to study details of the electronic structure of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by measuring the phonon spectra and how the quantized electronic structure affects the dispersive Raman features of SWNTs. We focus our analysis on the dispersive D and bands observed in the Raman spectra of isolated semiconducting nanotubes. By using a laser excitation energy of 2.41 eV, we show that both the D-band and -band frequencies are dependent on the wave vector where the electrons are confined in the one-dimensional subband i of the electronic structure of SWNTs. By making use of the assignment for each tube, we theoretically correlate the observed frequency dependences for the D- and -band modes with the electronic structure predicted for each pair and we determine the dependence of and on the diameter and chirality for individual electronic transitions for nanotube bundles. We use the D- and -band dependence on electron wave vector to predict the dominant phonon wave vector q selected by the quantum-confined electronic state and to explain the anomalous dispersion observed for and in SWNT bundles as a function of laser excitation energy, yielding excellent agreement between experiment and theory.
- Received 28 August 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.035404
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