Optical Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques for the Study of Nano-Structured Materials Such as Carbon Nanotubes
Optical techniques allowing observations and spectroscopic investigations of materials at a nanoscale have been recently developed and applied to carbon nanotubes. They are briefly presented, including Scanning near-field optical microscopy, together with the Surface Enhanced or Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering. Even if new physical properties are difficult to extract from observed data, we show that nanostructures can generate non linear phenomena that can be exploited for studying nano-materials and in particular carbon nanotubes. By measuring the anti-Stokes/Stokes ratios of the Raman bands which present strong anomalies with respect to the prediction of the Maxwell-Boltzman law, one can distinguish between semi-conducting and metallic tubes on one hand and between isolated and bundled nanotubes on the other hand.
Keywords: CARBON NANOTUBES; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING (CARS); NON-LINEAR PROCESSES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS)
Document Type: Review Article
Publication date: 01 August 2009
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