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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Raman imaging and spectroscopy of heterogeneous individual carbon nanotubes
Jialong ZhaoChaoyang JiangHelen Annal ThereseAnd Marcel FriedrichAlf Mewssubject
Materials scienceAnalytical chemistryCarbon nanotubeChemical vapor depositionSurfaces Coatings and Filmslaw.inventionsymbols.namesakelawMicrocontact printingMicroscopyMaterials ChemistrysymbolsMoleculePhysical and Theoretical ChemistryRaman spectroscopySpectroscopyExcitationdescription
Isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were grown by chemical vapor deposition methods on Fe/Mo/Al2O3 catalysts, which were patterned by microcontact printing. The pattern allowed us to trace back and investigate the same isolated CNT by atomic-force (AFM) and confocal Raman microscopy with different excitation wavelengths. A change of the Raman intensity could be correlated with structural defects revealing that the molecular structure of the tubes is changing along the tube axis. By investigating the same tube segments with different excitation energies, we found that the D-line of isolated tubes shows a strong dispersive effect of 45−50 cm-1/eV. In contrast, the spectral position of the G-line shows no frequency shift with changing excitation energy but is different for various tube segments.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-08-01 |