Is the diameter or chirality distribution of single-walled carbon nanotubes selected in the synthesis process?
Based on recent theoretical photoluminescence intensity calculations, the population densities of sixteen semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes grown by alcohol catalytic chemical vapor deposition were estimated for two different temperatures. The profiles of population density merely as functions of tube-diameter or chiral angle are found to be widely scattered. However, systematic profiles are detectable when separately split into (2n + m), (n + 2m) and (n - m) family arrays. Apart from these well-knit family behaviors, the population densities of the group of nanotubes forming another three possible series [viz. constant-n, constant-m and constant-(n + m)] also show evidence of good correlations. Hence, a two-dimensional chiral-zone selective growth principle is hypothesized.
Department of Basic Engineering Sciences, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Garia, Kolkata 700152, India.
Krishnendu
K
Bhattacharyya
Yoshiyuki
Y
Suda
Atsushi
A
Okita
Takeshi
T
Saito
Atsushi
A
Ozeki
Masayuki
M
Maekawa
Junichi
J
Takayama
Hirotake
H
Sugawara
Yosuke
Y
Sakai