Synthesis of nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes and monitoring of doping by Raman spectroscopy

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/8/086101

Abstract Nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (CN_x-SWNTs) with tunable dopant concentrations were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and their structure and elemental composition were characterized by using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in combination with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). By comparing the Raman spectra of pristine and doped nanotubes, we observed the doping-induced Raman G band phonon stiffening and 2D band phonon softening, both of which reflect doping-induced renormalization of the electron and phonon energies in the nanotubes and behave as expected in accord with the n-type doping effect. On the basis of first principles calculations of the distribution of delocalized carrier density in both the pristine and doped nanotubes, we show how the n-type doping occurs when nitrogen heteroatoms are substitutionally incorporated into the honeycomb tube-shell carbon lattice.

Keywords: single-walled carbon nanotubes nitrogen doping chemical vapor deposition Raman spectroscopy

Received: 23 April 2013
Revised: 20 May 2013
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PACS:	61.48.De	(Structure of carbon nanotubes, boron nanotubes, and other related systems)
	81.15.Gh	(Chemical vapor deposition (including plasma-enhanced CVD, MOCVD, ALD, etc.))
	63.22.Gh	(Nanotubes and nanowires)
	78.30.Na	(Fullerenes and related materials)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11004230, 51172273, 11290161, and 11027402), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2012CB933003 and 2013CB932603), and the Innovative Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-W35).

Corresponding Authors: Wang Wen-Long, Sui Yu, Bai Xue-Dong
E-mail: wwl@aphy.iphy.ac.cn; suiyu@hit.edu.cn; xdbai@aphy.iphy.ac.cn

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Wu Mu-Hong (吴慕鸿), Li Xiao (李晓), Pan Ding (潘鼎), Liu Lei (刘磊), Yang Xiao-Xia (杨晓霞), Xu Zhi (许智), Wang Wen-Long (王文龙), Sui Yu (隋郁), Bai Xue-Dong (白雪冬) Synthesis of nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes and monitoring of doping by Raman spectroscopy 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 086101

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