Optical properties of carbon nanotubes
The optical properties of carbon nanotubes are highly relevant for materials science. The way those materials interact with electromagnetic radiation is unique in many respects, as evidenced by their peculiar absorption, photoluminescence (fluorescence), and Raman spectra.
A sample of multiwalled carbon nanotubes with 3–15 walls, mean inner diameter 4 nm, mean outer diameter 13–16 nm, length 1-10+ micrometers.
A bulk 3D material (blue) has continuous DOS, but a 1D wire (green) has Van Hove singularities.
In this Kataura plot, the energy of an electronic transition decreases as the diameter of the nanotube increases.
Optical absorption spectrum from dispersed single-wall carbon nanotubes
A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale). They are one of the allotropes of carbon.
Transmission electron microscope image of carbon nanotube junction
A scanning electron microscopy image of carbon nanotube bundles
Computer simulated microstructures with agglomeration regions
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