Optoelectronic properties of transparent and conducting single-wall、.pdf

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 88, 191919 2006 Optoelectronic properties of transparent and conducting single-wall carbon nanotube thin films Giovanni Fanchini,a Husnu Emrah Unalan, and Manish Chhowalla Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 Received 14 December 2005; accepted 12 April 2006; published online 12 May 2006 Optoelectronic characterization of transparent and conducting single-wall carbon nanotube thin films is reported. By eliminating the influence of voids and bundle-bundle interactions within the effective medium theory, we show that the complex dielectric response of the individual nanotube varies with its density in the film. Specifically, the absorption peak assigned to the maximum * intensity of - transitions was found to decrease from E =5.0 eV at low nanotube density to E =4.2 eV at intermediate densities and increased again at higher densities to E =4.5 eV. Furthermore, the Drude background was found only above a critical density of nanotubes. o These results unequivocally demonstrate that the optical processes are not confined only to in-tube transitions and that the absence of confinement in nanotube networks profoundly affects the electronic behavior of the individual tube. © 2006 American Institute of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.2202703 * Single-wall carbon nanotubes SWNTs exhibit remark- - transitions. On the other hand, the films exhibit metal-