Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2010.

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Main Author: Villalpando Páez, Federico
Other Authors: Mildred S. Dresselhaus.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59238
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spelling mit-1721.1/592382019-04-10T21:33:36Z Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations Villalpando Páez, Federico Mildred S. Dresselhaus. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125). A double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) provides the simplest system to study the interaction between concentric tubes in carbon nanotubes. The inner and outer walls of a DWNT can be metallic (M) or semiconducting (S), and each of the four possible configurations (MUM, M©S, SUS, S©M) has different electronic properties. We analyze the Raman spectra from undoped and boron-doped chemical vapor deposition-derived DWNT bundles (CVD-DWNTs) that exhibit the "coalescence inducing mode" (CIM) as they are heat treated at temperatures between 12000C and 2000'C. We then report, for the first time, detailed Raman spectroscopy experiments carried out on individual DWNTs, where both concentric tubes of the same DWNT are measured under resonance conditions. A technique is developed that combines tunable Raman spectroscopy with Raman mapping procedures and electron beam lithography to enable the acquisition of Raman spectra from the individual constituents of the same isolated DWNT. By using the technique mentioned above, we measure resonant Raman scattering from 11 individual C60-derived double wall carbon nanotubes all having inner semiconducting (6,5) tubes and various outer metallic tubes. We report that in an individual DWNT an increase in the RBM frequency of the inner tube is related to an increase in the RBM frequency of the outer tube due to a decrease in the wall to wall distance. Finally, we use 40 laser excitation energies to analyze the differences in the Raman spectra from chemical vapor deposition-derived DWNT bundles (CVD-DWNTs), fullerene-derived DWNT bundles (C₆₀-DWNTs) and individual fullerene-derived DWNTs with inner type I and type II semiconducting tubes paired with outer metallic tubes. by Federico Villalpando Páez. Ph.D. 2010-10-12T18:52:27Z 2010-10-12T18:52:27Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59238 666497778 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 125 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Materials Science and Engineering.
Villalpando Páez, Federico
Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title_full Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title_fullStr Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title_full_unstemmed Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title_short Raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
title_sort raman spectroscopy of double walled carbon nanotubes with different metallic and semiconducting configurations
topic Materials Science and Engineering.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59238
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