TY - JOUR
T1 - Anharmonic phonon lifetimes in carbon nanotubes
T2 - Evidence for a one-dimensional phonon decay bottleneck
AU - Rao, Rahul
AU - Menendez, Jose
AU - Poweleit, Christian D.
AU - Rao, Apparao M.
PY - 2007/7/26
Y1 - 2007/7/26
N2 - High-resolution Raman spectroscopy is applied to suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to elucidate the puzzling differences in the lifetime of the radial breathing mode (RBM) obtained from different experimental techniques. Whereas recent tunneling experiments suggest a room temperature RBM lifetime as long as 10 ns, previous Raman experiments yield lifetimes shorter than 2 ps. The lifetimes obtained in this study are longer than 5 ps-a significant step in the direction of the tunneling results. We argue that the remaining discrepancy is due to the existence of phonon decay bottlenecks caused by the one-dimensional nature of nanotubes. Numerical simulations of the RBM decay show that it is possible to reconcile the short lifetimes measured spectroscopically with the long lifetimes obtained in tunneling experiments.
AB - High-resolution Raman spectroscopy is applied to suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to elucidate the puzzling differences in the lifetime of the radial breathing mode (RBM) obtained from different experimental techniques. Whereas recent tunneling experiments suggest a room temperature RBM lifetime as long as 10 ns, previous Raman experiments yield lifetimes shorter than 2 ps. The lifetimes obtained in this study are longer than 5 ps-a significant step in the direction of the tunneling results. We argue that the remaining discrepancy is due to the existence of phonon decay bottlenecks caused by the one-dimensional nature of nanotubes. Numerical simulations of the RBM decay show that it is possible to reconcile the short lifetimes measured spectroscopically with the long lifetimes obtained in tunneling experiments.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.047403
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.047403
M3 - Article
C2 - 17678403
AN - SCOPUS:34547451789
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 99
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 047403
ER -