Multiple Exciton Generation in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
- 27 May 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 10 (7), 2381-2386
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl100343j
Abstract
Upon absorption of single photons, multiple excitons were generated and detected in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using transient absorption spectroscopy. For (6,5) SWNTs, absorption of single photons with energies corresponding to three times the SWNT energy gap results in an exciton generation efficiency of 130% per photon. Our results suggest that the multiple exciton generation threshold in SWNTs can be close to the limit defined by energy conservation.Keywords
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