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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
Exciton energy transfer in pairs of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Huihong Qian1, Carsten Georgi, Neil Anderson
1Department Chemie and Biochemie and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 81377 München, Germany.
Abstract:
We studied the exciton energy transfer in pairs of semiconducting nanotubes using high-resolution optical microscopy and spectroscopy on the nanoscale. Photoluminescence from large band gap nanotubes within bundles is observed with spatially varying intensities due to distance-dependent internanotube transfer. The range of efficient energy transfer is found to be limited to a few nanometers because of competing fast nonradiative relaxation responsible for low photoluminescence quantum yield.
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