title: High-energy phonon branches of an individual metallic carbon nanotube.
abstract: We present excitation-energy dependent Raman measurements between 2.05 and 2.41 eV on the same individual carbon nanotube. We find a change in the Raman frequencies of both the D mode (63 cm(-1)/eV) and the high-energy modes. The observed frequencies of the modes at approximately 1600 cm(-1) as a function of laser-energy map the phonon dispersion relation of a metallic tube near the Gamma point of the Brillouin zone. Our results prove the entire first-order Raman spectrum in single-wall carbon nanotubes to originate from double-resonant scattering. Moreover, we confirm experimentally the phonon softening in metallic tubes by a Peierls-like mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maultzsch
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reich
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schlecht
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thomsen