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Brightening of carbon nanotube photoluminescence through the incorporation of sp3 defects
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Semiconducting carbon nanotubes promise a broad range of potential applications in optoelectronics and imaging, but their photon-conversion efficiency is relatively low. Quantum theory suggests that nanotube photoluminescence is intrinsically inefficient because of low-lying 'dark' exciton states. Here we demonstrate the significant brightening of nanotube photoluminescence (up to 28-fold) through the creation of an optically allowed defect state that resides below the predicted energy level of the dark excitons. Emission from this new state generates a photoluminescence peak that is red-shifted by as much as 254 meV from the nanotube's original excitonic transition. We also found that the attachment of electron-withdrawing substituents to carbon nanotubes systematically drives this defect state further down the energy ladder. Our experiments show that the material's photoluminescence quantum yield increases exponentially as a function of the shifted emission energy. This work lays the foundation for chemical control of defect quantum states in low-dimensional carbon materials.
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- Piao, Y., Meany, B., Powell, L. R., Valley, N., Kwon, H., Schatz, G. C., & Wang, Y.
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- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, YuHuang
- Venue
- Nature Chemistry
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- 2013-07-21
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- 5
- Issue
- 10
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- 840-845
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- 1755-4330 (ISSN-L)
- 1755-4349
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- Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
- Army Research Office
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
- Keywords
- carbon nanotubes, sp3 defects, defect states, dark excitons, red-shifted emission, electron-withdrawing substituents, photoluminescence quantum yield, single-walled carbon nanotubes, chemical functionalization, photon conversion efficiency
- MeSH terms
- Electrons, Luminescent Measurements, Particle Size, Quantum Theory, Nanotubes, Carbon
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