Tunable bandgaps and excitons in doped semiconducting carbon nanotubes made possible by acoustic plasmons

Details Tunable bandgaps and excitons in doped semiconducting carbon nanotubes made possible by acoustic plasmons Tunable bandgaps and excitons in doped semiconducting carbon nanotubes made possible by acoustic plasmons

2010-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/1005.0145v1

PRL 104, 177402 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 4 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

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Doping of semiconductors is essential in modern electronic and photonic devices. While doping is well understood in bulk semiconductors, the advent of carbon nanotubes and nanowires for nanoelectronic and nanophotonic applications raises some key questions about the role and impact of doping at low dimensionality. Here we show that for semiconducting carbon nanotubes, bandgaps and exciton binding energies can be dramatically reduced upon experimentally relevant doping, and can be tuned gradually over a broad range of energies in contrast to higher dimensional systems. The later feature is made possible by a novel mechanism involving strong dynamical screening effects mediated by acoustic plasmons.

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