Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Optical Properties:
Caption: Schematic of the pump-probe experimental setup that is used to characterize photobleaching in surfactant encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes. The inset depicts the mechanism of stimulated emission of infrared radiation in direct band gap one-dimensional semiconductors.
Relevant Publications:
[1] M. S. Arnold, S. Lan, S. C. Cruz, J. E. Sharping, S. I. Stupp, P. Kumar, and M. C. Hersam, “Optical absorption and transient photobleaching in solutions of surfactant encapsulated and DNA wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes,” Proc. of SPIE, 5359, 376 (2004).
[2] M. S. Arnold, J. E. Sharping, S. I. Stupp, P. Kumar, and M. C. Hersam, “Band Gap Photobleaching in Isolated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes,” Nano Letters, 3, 1549 (2003).
[3] M. S. Arnold, S. I. Stupp, and M. C. Hersam, “Tuning the optical properties of carbon nanotube solutions using amphiphilic self-assembly,” Proc. of SPIE, 4999, 238 (2003).
Collaborators: Prem Kumar (NU ECE), Samuel Stupp (NU MSE)