Abstract
Individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been investigated by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) using silver tips on the Ag(111) substrate with a low-temperature ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope. Thanks to the strong and highly localized plasmonic field offered by the silver nanogap, the spatial resolution of TERS on CNTs is driven down to about 0.7 nm. Such a high spatial resolution allows to visualize in real space the spatial extent of the defect-induced D-band scattering, to track the strain-induced spectral evolution, and to resolve the spectral differences between the inner and the outer sides of a bent CNT, all at the nanometer scale.
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