Can armchair nanotubes host organic color centers?
| Autor: | Benjamin Eller, Jacob Fortner, Jacek Kłos, YuHuang Wang, Charles W Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 34:464004 |
| ISSN: | 1361-648X 0953-8984 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-648x/ac8f7e |
| Popis: | We use time-dependent density functional theory to investigate the possibility of hosting organic color centers in (6, 6) armchair single-walled carbon nanotubes, which are known to be metallic. Our calculations show that in short segments of (6, 6) nanotubes ∼ 5 nm in length there is a dipole-allowed singlet transition related to the quantum confinement of charge carriers in the smaller segments. The introduction of s p 3 defects to the surface of (6, 6) nanotubes results in new dipole-allowed excited states. Some of these states are redshifted from the native confinement state of the defect-free (6, 6) segments; this is similar behavior to what is observed with s p 3 defects to exciton transitions in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. This result suggests the possibility of electrically wiring organic color centers directly through armchair carbon nanotube hosts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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