Photophysics of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes

LJ Carlson, TD Krauss - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are cylindrical graphitic molecules that have
remained at the forefront of nanomaterials research since 1991, largely due to their …

A route to brightly fluorescent carbon nanotubes for near-infrared imaging in mice

K Welsher, Z Liu, SP Sherlock, JT Robinson… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
The near-infrared photoluminescence intrinsic to semiconducting single-walled carbon
nanotubes is ideal for biological imaging owing to the low autofluorescence and deep tissue …

Low-Temperature Single Carbon Nanotube Spectroscopy of sp3 Quantum Defects

X He, BJ Gifford, NF Hartmann, R Ihly, X Ma, SV Kilina… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Aiming to unravel the relationship between chemical configuration and electronic structure
of sp3 defects of aryl-functionalized (6, 5) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), we …

All-optical trion generation in single-walled carbon nanotubes

SM Santos, B Yuma, S Berciaud, J Shaver, M Gallart… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We present evidence of all-optical trion generation and emission in pristine single-walled
carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Luminescence spectra, recorded on individual SWCNTs over …

Surfactant-dependent exciton mobility in single-walled carbon nanotubes studied by single-molecule reactions

AJ Siitonen, DA Tsyboulski, SM Bachilo… - Nano Letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
Measurements of stepwise photoluminescence quenching in individual,(n, m)-selected
single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) undergoing chemical reaction have been …

Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy of carbon nanotubes

A Hartschuh, H Qian, C Georgi, M Böhmler… - Analytical and …, 2009 - Springer
We review recent experimental studies on single-walled carbon nanotubes on substrates
using tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy (TENOM). High-resolution optical and …

Defect-induced photoluminescence from dark excitonic states in individual single-walled carbon nanotubes

H Harutyunyan, T Gokus, AA Green, MC Hersam… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We show that new low-energy photoluminescence (PL) bands can be created in the spectra
of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes by intense pulsed excitation. The new …

Metrological investigation of the (6, 5) carbon nanotube absorption cross section

L Oudjedi, ANG Parra-Vasquez, AG Godin… - The journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Using single-nanotube absorption microscopy, we measured the absorption cross section of
(6, 5) carbon nanotubes at their second-order optical transition. We obtained a value of 3.2× …

Photon antibunching in single-walled carbon nanotubes at telecommunication wavelengths and room temperature

T Endo, J Ishi-Hayase, H Maki - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the photoluminescence of individual air-suspended single-walled carbon
nanotubes (SWNTs) from 6 to 300 K. Time-resolved and antibunching measurements over …

Optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes separated in a density gradient: length, bundling, and aromatic stacking effects

SM Tabakman, K Welsher, G Hong… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are promising materials for in vitro and in vivo
biological applications due to their high surface area and inherent near-infrared …