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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
Coherent phonon dynamics in semiconducting carbon nanotubes: a quantitative study of electron-phonon coupling
Larry Lüer1, Christoph Gadermaier, Jared Crochet
1National Laboratory for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Abstract:
We excite and detect coherent phonons in semiconducting (6,5) carbon nanotubes via a sub-10-fs pump-probe technique. Simulation of the amplitude and phase profile via time-dependent wave packet theory yields excellent agreement with experimental results under the assumption of molecular excitonic states and allows determining the electron-phonon coupling strength for the two dominant vibrational modes.
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