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Single-molecule chemical reactions with individual single-walled carbon nanotubes were observed through near-infrared photoluminescence microscopy. The emission intensity within distinct submicrometer segments of single nanotubes changes in…

We have investigated excitons in highly-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) through optical spectroscopy at low temperature (1.5 K) and high magnetic fields ($\textbf{\textit{B}}$) up to 55 T. SWCNT/polyacrylic acid films were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Shaver , S. A. Crooker , J. A. Fagan , E. K. Hobbie , N. Ubrig , O. Portugall , V. Perebeinos , Ph. Avouris , J. Kono

An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

In this paper, we model the evolution and self-assembly of randomly oriented carbon nanotubes (CNTs), grown on a metallic substrate in the form of a thin film for field emission under diode configuration. Despite high output, the current in…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-14 N. Sinha , D. Roy Mahapatra , J. T. W. Yeow , R. V. N. Melnik , D. A. Jaffray

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

Carbon nanotubes play a fundamental role in the rapidly developing field of nanoscience and nanotechnology because of their unique properties and high potential applictions. In this article, the different synthesis method of CNTs are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Kalpana Awasthi , Anchal Srivastava , O. N. Srivastava

Excitons play a key role for the optoelectronic properties of hybrid systems. We apply near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) with a $100\,\text{-nm}$ spatial resolution to study the photoluminescence of surface excitons (SX) in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Sebastian Friede , Sergei Kuehn , Sergey Sadofev , Sylke Blumstengel , Fritz Henneberger , Thomas Elsaesser

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

Annotation A carbon nanotubes (CNT) filled polymer nanocomposites with their unique physical, mechanical and electro-optical properties has repeatedly discussed in the literature. The main part of this problem is to obtain high quality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 T. V. Vlasova , V. I. Kryshtob , V. F. Mironov , L. A. Apresyan , S. N. Bokova , E. D. Obraztsova , D. V. Vlasov

The optical absorption spectrum of the carbon (4,2) nanotube is computed using an ab-initio many-body approach which takes into account excitonic effects. We develop a new method involving a local basis set which is symmetric with respect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Chang , Giovanni Bussi , Alice Ruini , Elisa Molinari

A recent study [Rosati, Dolcini, and Rossi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 243101 (2015)] has predicted that, while in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) an electronic wave packet experiences the typical spatial diffusion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 R. Rosati , F. Dolcini , F. Rossi

We use Boltzmann transport equation (BE) to study time evolution of a photo-excited state in a nanoparticle including phonon-mediated exciton relaxation and the multiple exciton generation (MEG) processes, such as exciton-to-biexciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Andrei Kryjevski , Deyan Mihaylov , Svetlana Kilina , Dmitri Kilin

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

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

Interfacial friction in nanofluidic systems can arise from fluctuation-induced coupling between liquid charge fluctuations and the internal excitations of the confining solid. Here, we develop a microscopic theory of exciton-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Timur Pryadilin , Alexey Kavokin , Baptiste Coquinot

This study presents a Monte Carlo simulation tool for modeling the transportation processes of thermal electrons in noble liquids, specifically focusing on liquid argon and liquid xenon. The study aims to elucidate the microscopical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-22 Yijun Xie , Yi Wang

Even though ultrasonication is considered to be an effective method to disperse carbon nanotubes (CNTs), its devastating effects on the nanotubes are often neglected. Here, even mild ultrasonication is found to rapidly extract the inner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Maksiem Erkens , Sofie Cambré , Emmanuel Flahaut , Frédéric Fossard , Annick Loiseau , Wim Wenseleers

In this theoretical study, we explore F\"orster resonant energy transfer of a single exciton within a two-dimensional array of self-assembled quantum dots arranged randomly on a circular mesa. Employing the stochastic simulation method, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

Quantum friction describes the transfer of energy and momentum from electronically excited states in a material to a surrounding solvent. Here, we show that near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) exhibit…

We demonstrate a new method to deposit carbon nanotubes (CNT) on optical fibers based on a syringe-loaded CNT solution axially aligned to the fiber tip. A laser generates an optical tweezer in a water-based CNT solution, depositing…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ricardo E. da Silva , Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro