Multiparticle Exciton Ionization in Shallow Doped Carbon Nanotubes.
Shallow hole doping in small-diameter semiconducting carbon nanotubes with a valley degeneracy is predicted to result in the resonant ionization of excitons into free electron-hole pairs. This mechanism, which relies on the chirality of the electronic states, causes excitons to decay with high efficiencies where the rate scales as the square of the dopant density. Moreover, multiparticle exciton ionization can account for delocalized fluorescence quenching when a few holes per micrometer of tube length are present.
†Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Jay D
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Sau
Jared J
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Crochet
Stephen K
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Doorn
§Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States.|⊥Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States.
Marvin L
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Cohen
Auger; carbon nanotube; exciton; hole doping