Electrodynamic and Excitonic Intertube Interactions in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Aggregates

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• 作者：Jared J. Crochet ; Jay D. Sau ; Juan G. Duque ; Stephen K. Doorn ; Marvin L. Cohen
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：April 26, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：5
• 期：4
• 页码：2611-2618
• 全文大小：948K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

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The optical properties of selectively aggregated, nearly single chirality single-wall carbon nanotubes were investigated by both continuous-wave and time-resolved spectroscopies. With reduced sample heterogeneities, we have resolved aggregation-dependent reductions of the excitation energy of the S₁ exciton and enhanced electron−hole pair absorption. Photoluminescence spectra revealed a spectral splitting of S₁ and simultaneous reductions of the emission efficiencies and nonradiative decay rates. The observed strong deviations from isolated tube behavior are accounted for by enhanced screening of the intratube Coulomb interactions, intertube exciton tunneling, and diffusion-driven exciton quenching. We also provide evidence that density gradient ultracentrifugation can be used to structurally sort single-wall carbon nanotubes by aggregate size as evident by a monotonic dependence of the aforementioned optical properties on buoyant density.