Electroluminescence from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Quantum Defects

Li, Min-Ken; Riaz, Adnan; Wederhake, Martina; Fink, Karin; Saha, Avishek; Dehm, Simone; He, Xiaowei; Schöppler, Friedrich; Kappes, Manfred M.; Htoon, Han; Popov, Valentin N.; Doorn, Stephen K.; Hertel, Tobias; Hennrich, Frank; Krupke, Ralph

doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c03083

Electroluminescence from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Quantum Defects

Journal Article · Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c03083· OSTI ID:1879407

Li, Min-Ken ^[1]; Riaz, Adnan ^[2]; Wederhake, Martina ^[3]; Fink, Karin ^[4]; Saha, Avishek ^[5]; Dehm, Simone ^[4]; He, Xiaowei ^[5]; Schöppler, Friedrich ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[5]; Popov, Valentin N. ^[6]; ^[5]; ^[3]; Hennrich, Frank ^[4]; ^[1]

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany); Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany)
Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Julius Maximilian University Würzburg (Germany)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Sofia (Bulgaria)

Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes with covalent sidewall defects have emerged as a class of photon sources whose photoluminescence spectra can be tailored by the carbon nanotube chirality and the attached functional group/molecule. Here we present electroluminescence spectroscopy data from single-tube devices based on (7, 5) carbon nanotubes, functionalized with dichlorobenzene molecules, and wired to graphene electrodes. We observe electrically generated, defect-induced emissions that are controllable by electrostatic gating and strongly red-shifted compared to emissions from pristine nanotubes. The defect-induced emissions are assigned to excitonic and trionic recombination processes by correlating electroluminescence excitation maps with electrical transport and photoluminescence data. At cryogenic conditions, additional gate-dependent emission lines appear, which are assigned to phonon-assisted hot-exciton electroluminescence from quasi-levels. Similar results were obtained with functionalized (6, 5) nanotubes. We also compare functionalized (7, 5) electroluminescence data with photoluminescence of pristine and functionalized (7, 5) nanotubes redox-doped using gold(III) chloride solution. This work shows that electroluminescence excitation is selective toward neutral defect-state configurations with the lowest transition energy, which in combination with gate-control over neutral versus charged defect-state emission leads to high spectral purity.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: German National Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC). Materials Sciences & Engineering

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1879407

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-22-26725

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Journal Name: ACS Nano Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 16; ISSN 1936-0851

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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