Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and their Ultrafast Optical Switching Behavior

Author(s):  
J.P. Yang ◽  
Manfred M. Kappes ◽  
H. Hippler ◽  
Andreas N. Unterreiner
2007 ◽  
Vol 121-123 ◽  
pp. 905-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Yang ◽  
Manfred M. Kappes ◽  
H. Hippler ◽  
Andreas N. Unterreiner

Two types of individualized single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) in aqueous surfactant suspensions have been studied by femtosecond two-color absorption spectroscopy. A careful selection of pump and probe wavelengths allows for the determination of the “intrinsic” lifetimes of the lowest excited states which depend on the diameter of the SWNTs. Furthermore, a fast decay component in the ps to sub-ps regime was also observed and tentatively attributed to bundle relaxation. Likewise, this experimental approach can also assess spectral regions with decays faster than 1 ps, which is of great interest for all-optical switching devices near the optical telecommunication wavelength.


Author(s):  
Junjie Chen ◽  
Sen Guo ◽  
Dabin Lin ◽  
Zhaogang Nie ◽  
Chung-Che Huang ◽  
...  

Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy has been employed to unravel separate initial nonequilibrium dynamic process of photo-injected electrons and holes during the formation process of the lowest excitons at the K-valley...


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