About the indexing of the structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes from resonant Raman scattering

T Michel, M Paillet, A Zahab, D Nakabayashi, V Jourdain, R Parret and J-L Sauvajol

Abstract

We review the information that we have obtained from combined Raman spectroscopy and electron diffraction experiments on individual free-standing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT). From these data, we define Raman criteria allowing the indexing of SWNTs from their Raman features only and we show the efficiency of this approach in assigning the structure of individual carbon nanotubes. These results on index-identified individual SWNTs are compared with theoretical predictions