Low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) studies of individual semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes reveal ultranarrow peaks (down to 0.25 meV linewidths) that exhibit blinking and spectral wandering. Multiple peaks appear within bands previously assigned to nanotubes of certain chiralities, indicating the existence of numerous subspecies within single-chirality specimens. The sharp PL features show two types of distinctly different shapes (symmetric versus asymmetric) and temperature dependences (weak versus strong), which we attribute to the presence of unintentionally doped nanotubes along with undoped species.
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January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China.
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Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Dust Control and Occupational Protection, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Drøbakveien 31, 1430 Ås, Norway.
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