title: Photoconductivity spectra of single-carbon nanotubes: implications on the nature of their excited States.
abstract: We have measured the photoconductivity excitation spectra of individual semiconducting carbon nanotubes incorporated as the channel of field-effect transistors. In addition to the pronounced resonance that correlates with the second van Hove transition (E(22)) in semiconducting carbon nanotubes, a weaker sideband at about 200 meV higher energy is observed. Electronic structure calculations that include electron-phonon coupling indicate that the spectra originate from the simultaneous excitation of an exciton (main resonance) and a C-C bond stretching phonon (sideband). The spectral features are not compatible with an interband interpretation of the excitation involved.
authors.affiliation: IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaohui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Freitag
authors.forename: Vasili
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Perebeinos
authors.forename: Phaedon
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Avouris