Radial breathing modes of single-walled carbon nanotubes in resonance Raman spectra at high temperature and their chiral index assignment

Abstract

Radial breathing modes (RBMs) in resonance Raman spectra from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on a SiO 2/Si (0 0 1) substrate are studied between 25 and 720 °C. A change in the relative intensity of each RBM peak with temperature is observed, which originates from the temperature dependence of the resonance condition of nanotubes. For 25 °C, each RBM peak is reasonably assigned on the basis of data in the literature [J. Maultzsch, H. Telg, S. Reich, F. Hennrich, C. Thomsen, Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 205438]. By taking into account the temperature-dependent behavior of the relative intensity of the RBM peaks, each RBM peak is successfully assigned even for 720 °C. It is found that most of the observed RBM peaks for a laser excitation energy of E exc = 1.96 eV are from chiral SWCNTs. These results make it possible to discuss further details of the chirality-dependent growth behavior observed for in situ Raman spectroscopy.