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Optical absorption of graphite and single-wall carbon nanotubes

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A review of the electronic dipole transitions in graphite and single-wall carbon nanotubes is presented. Because of its singular electronic structure, the optical absorption matrix element as a function of wave vector has a node in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone of graphite, which depends linearly on the optical polarization direction. In the case of the single-wall carbon nanotubes, the dipole selection rule and the van Hove singularity in the joint density of states will give a characteristic behavior, which is observed by luminescence and resonance Raman spectroscopy.

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  1. Department of Physics, Tohoku University and CREST JST, 980-8578, Aoba Sendai, Japan

    R. Saito & A. Grüneis

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139-4307, Cambridge, MA, USA

    G.G. Samsonidze, G. Dresselhaus & M.S. Dresselhaus

  3. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,, Caixa Postal 702, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    A. Jorio, L.G. Cançado & M.A. Pimenta

  4. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60455-900, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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Saito, R., Grüneis, A., Samsonidze, G. et al. Optical absorption of graphite and single-wall carbon nanotubes. Appl. Phys. A 78, 1099–1105 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-003-2459-z

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