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We report benchmark calculations of electroabsorption in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to provide motivation to experimentalists to perform electroabsorption measurement on these systems. We show that electroabsorption can…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongbo Zhao , Sumit Mazumdar

We examine the excitonic nature of high-lying optical transitions in single-walled carbon nanotubes by means of Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy. A careful analysis of the principal transitions of individual semiconducting and metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-27 Stephane Berciaud , Christophe Voisin , Hugen Yan , Bhupesh Chandra , Robert Caldwell , Yuyao Shan , Louis E. Brus , James Hone , Tony F. Heinz

We have applied the quantum Monte Carlo method and tight-binding modelling to calculate the binding energy of biexcitons in semiconductor carbon nanotubes for a wide range of diameters and chiralities. For typical nanotube diameters we find…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-24 David Kammerlander , Deborah Prezzi , Guido Goldoni , Elisa Molinari , Ulrich Hohenester

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of low dimensional nanostructures have attracted a large interest in the scientific community as tools to probe the strong confinement of the electrons and for possible applications in optoelectronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 C. Attaccalite , E. Cannuccia , M. Grüning

We present a quantitative theory of optical absorption polarized transverse to the tube axes in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. Transverse optical absorption in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes is to an exciton…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhendong Wang , Hongbo Zhao , Sumit Mazumdar

We show that the absorption spectrum in semiconducting nanotubes can be determined using the bosonization technique combined with mean-field theory and a harmonic approximation. Our results indicate that a multiple band semiconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 M. C. Sweeney , J. D. Eaves

We report high field magneto-optical study on the first and second sub-band transitions of single-chirality single-walled carbon nanotubes. The ordering and relative energy splitting between bright and dark excitonic states were found to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Weihang Zhou , Tatsuya Sasaki , Daisuke Nakamura , Huaping Liu , Hiromichi Kataura , Shojiro Takeyama

Excitons in one-dimensional narrow gap semiconductors of anti-crossing quantum Hall edge states are investigated using a bosonization method. The excitonic states are studied by mapping the problem into a non-integrable sine-Gordon type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Lee , S. -R. Eric Yang

Using Coulomb correlation parameters appropriate for $\pi$-conjugated polymers (PCPs), and a nearest neighbor hopping integral that is arrived at by fitting the energy spectra of three zigzag semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhendong Wang , Hongbo Zhao , Sumit Mazumdar

Simultaneous photoluminescence and photocurrent measurements on individual single-walled carbon nanotubes reveal spontaneous dissociation of excitons into free electron-hole pairs. Correlation of luminescence intensity and photocurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 Y. Kumamoto , M. Yoshida , A. Ishii , A. Yokoyama , T. Shimada , Y. K. Kato

We study theoretically the interactions of excitonic states with surface electromagnetic modes of small-diameter (~1 nm) semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. We show that these interactions can result in strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. V. Bondarev , K. Tatur , L. M. Woods

We demonstrate a possibility for exciton Bose-Einstein condensation in individual small-diameter (~1-2 nm) semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The effect occurs under the exciton-interband-plasmon coupling controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 I. V. Bondarev , A. V. Meliksetyan

We calculate the diameter and chirality dependences of the binding energies, sizes, and bright-dark splittings of excitons in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Using results and insights from {\it ab initio} calculations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Rodrigo B. Capaz , Catalin D. Spataru , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi , Steven G. Louie

Excitons play major roles in optical processes in modern semiconductors, such as single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D perovskite quantum wells. They possess extremely large binding energies…

Many-electron effects often dramatically modify the properties of reduced dimensional systems. We report calculations, based on an many-electron Green's function approach, of electron-hole interaction effects on the optical spectra of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Catalin D. Spataru , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi , Lorin X. Benedict , Steven G. Louie

We have studied emission properties of high-density excitons in single-walled carbon nanotubes through nonlinear photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy. As the excitation intensity was increased, all emission peaks arising from different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Murakami , J. Kono

We demonstrate that a non-perturbative framework for the treatment of the excitations of single walled carbon nanotubes based upon a field theoretic reduction is able to accurately describe experiment observations of the absolute values of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Robert M. Konik , Matthew Y. Sfeir , James A. Misewich

We present direct experimental observation of exciton-phonon bound states in the photoluminescence excitation spectra of isolated single walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous suspension. The photoluminescence excitation spectra from several…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Flavio Plentz , Henrique B. Ribeiro , Ado Jorio , Marcos A. Pimenta , Michael S. Strano

The theory of exciton spectrum in multi-shell hexagonal semiconductor nanotube is developed within the effective masses and rectangular potentials approximations using the method of effective potential. It is shown that the exciton binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 O. M. Makhanets , V. I. Gutsul , N. R. Tsiupak , O. M. Voitsekhivska

Through an investigation of photoemission properties of highly-photoexcited single-walled carbon nanotubes, we demonstrate that there is an upper limit on the achievable excitonic density. As the intensity of optical excitation increases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-31 Yoichi Murakami , Junichiro Kono