Dielectric Screening Inside Carbon Nanotubes

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Autori principali: Gordeev, Georgy, Wasserroth, Sören, Li, Han, Jorio, Ado, Flavel, Benjamin S., Reich, Stephanie
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Gordeev, Georgy
Wasserroth, Sören
Li, Han
Jorio, Ado
Flavel, Benjamin S.
Reich, Stephanie
author_facet Gordeev, Georgy
Wasserroth, Sören
Li, Han
Jorio, Ado
Flavel, Benjamin S.
Reich, Stephanie
contents Dielectric screening plays a vital role for the physical properties in the nanoscale and also alters our ability to detect and characterize nanomaterials by optical techniques. We study the dielectric screening inside of carbon nanotubes and how it changes electromagnetic fields and many-body effects for encapsulated nanostructures. First, we show that the local electric field inside a nanotube is altered by one-dimensional screening with dramatic effects on the effective Raman scattering efficiency of the encapsulated species for metallic walls. The scattering intensity of the inner tube is two orders of magnitude weaker than for the tube in air, which is nicely reproduced by local field calculations. Secondly, we find that the optical transition energies of the inner nanotubes shift to lower energies compared to a single-walled carbon nanotubes of the same chirality. The shift is higher if the outer tube is metallic than when it is semiconducting. The magnitude of the shift suggests that the excitons of small diameter inner metallic tubes are thermally dissociated at room temperate if the outer tube is also metallic and in essence we observe band-to-band transitions.
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spellingShingle Dielectric Screening Inside Carbon Nanotubes
Gordeev, Georgy
Wasserroth, Sören
Li, Han
Jorio, Ado
Flavel, Benjamin S.
Reich, Stephanie
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Dielectric screening plays a vital role for the physical properties in the nanoscale and also alters our ability to detect and characterize nanomaterials by optical techniques. We study the dielectric screening inside of carbon nanotubes and how it changes electromagnetic fields and many-body effects for encapsulated nanostructures. First, we show that the local electric field inside a nanotube is altered by one-dimensional screening with dramatic effects on the effective Raman scattering efficiency of the encapsulated species for metallic walls. The scattering intensity of the inner tube is two orders of magnitude weaker than for the tube in air, which is nicely reproduced by local field calculations. Secondly, we find that the optical transition energies of the inner nanotubes shift to lower energies compared to a single-walled carbon nanotubes of the same chirality. The shift is higher if the outer tube is metallic than when it is semiconducting. The magnitude of the shift suggests that the excitons of small diameter inner metallic tubes are thermally dissociated at room temperate if the outer tube is also metallic and in essence we observe band-to-band transitions.
title Dielectric Screening Inside Carbon Nanotubes
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01146