TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparative study of the optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes within orthogonal and nonorthogonal tight-binding models
AU - Popov, Valentin N.
AU - Henrard, Luc
PY - 2004/9/1
Y1 - 2004/9/1
N2 - The dielectric response function of single-walled carbon nanotubes is calculated within tight-binding models with different levels of complexity. First, the effects of the orbital basis set of the model, the orbitals overlap, and the structural optimization on the electronic band structure and the dielectric function of three small-radius nanotubes are investigated in detail. Second, the optical transition energies for a large number of nanotubes are derived from the peak positions of the imaginary part of the dielectric function for parallel and perpendicular light polarization. These results can be useful for the assignment of absorption spectra of nanotube samples and for the determination of the conditions for resonant Raman scattering from nanotubes. The obtained results are compared to recent spectrofluorimetric data on isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes.
AB - The dielectric response function of single-walled carbon nanotubes is calculated within tight-binding models with different levels of complexity. First, the effects of the orbital basis set of the model, the orbitals overlap, and the structural optimization on the electronic band structure and the dielectric function of three small-radius nanotubes are investigated in detail. Second, the optical transition energies for a large number of nanotubes are derived from the peak positions of the imaginary part of the dielectric function for parallel and perpendicular light polarization. These results can be useful for the assignment of absorption spectra of nanotube samples and for the determination of the conditions for resonant Raman scattering from nanotubes. The obtained results are compared to recent spectrofluorimetric data on isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.115407
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.115407
M3 - Article
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 70
SP - 115407-1-12
JO - Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 11
ER -