Kohn anomaly and electron-phonon interaction at the K-derived point of the brillouin zone of metallic nanotubes

Nano Lett. 2009 Sep;9(9):3343-8. doi: 10.1021/nl901618q.

Abstract

We applied Raman spectroscopy to investigate the response to electrochemical doping of the second-order D* band in single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles. Our study reveals a dramatic increase of the D* band sensitivity to doping upon moving the laser excitation to the red end of the visible spectrum and beyond. Using the double-resonance scattering model, we show that this phenomenon evidences a second Kohn anomaly in metallic SWNTs, located in the K-point-derived region of the Brillouin zone (BZ), which stems from the Kohn anomaly at the K-point of graphene. Our results will be compared to recent doping experiments on graphene with field-effect gating and can be used to investigate the wave-vector dependent electron-phonon coupling in the bulk of the BZ of metallic SWNTs.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Electrochemistry
  • Electrons*
  • Graphite / chemistry
  • Materials Testing
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Models, Chemical
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman

Substances

  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Graphite