Coupled study by TEM/EELS and STM/STS of electronic properties of C- and $ {\text{CN}}_{x}$-nanotubes

Hong Lin; Jérôme Lagoute; Vincent Repain; Cyril Chacon; Yann Girard; Jean-Sébastien Lauret; Raul Arenal; François Ducastelle; Sylvie Rousset; Annick Loiseau

doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.013

Prix Madeleine Lecoq 2011

Coupled study by TEM/EELS and STM/STS of electronic properties of C- and

{CN}_{x}

-nanotubes
[Étude couplée par TEM/EELS et STM/STS des propriétés structurales et électroniques des nanotubes C et

{CN}_{x}

]

Hong Lin ^1,² ; Jérôme Lagoute ² ; Vincent Repain ² ; Cyril Chacon ² ; Yann Girard ² ; Jean-Sébastien Lauret ³ ; Raul Arenal ^1,⁴ ; François Ducastelle ¹ ; Sylvie Rousset ² ; Annick Loiseau ¹

¹ Laboratoire dʼétude des microstructures, ONERA-CNRS, BP 72, 92322 Châtillon cedex, France
² Laboratoire matériaux et phénomènes quantiques, CNRS-université Paris 7, 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France
³ Laboratoire de photonique quantique et moléculaire, institut dʼAlembert, École normale supérieure de Cachan, 94235 Cachan cedex, France
⁴ Laboratorio de microscopias avanzadas, Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon, U. Zaragoza, c/Mariano Esquillor, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain

Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 12 (2011) no. 9-10, pp. 909-920.

Résumé
Abstract

Les nanotubes de carbone sont lʼobjet dʼimportants efforts de recherche en raison de leurs fascinantes propriétés physiques. Ils constituent un système modèle particulièrement intéressant pour lʼétude fondamentale de matériaux à une dimension et pour lʼélectronique moléculaire. Selon leur chiralité, les nanotubes peuvent adopter un comportement électronique soit semiconducteur soit métallique. Leur spectre électronique est dominé par une série de singularités de Van Hove qui définit la bande interdite des tubes semiconducteurs et les orbitales moléculaires situées à ces énergies. Pour contrôler et moduler les propriétés électroniques des nanotubes, une voie prometteuse est dʼutiliser le dopage par des hétéroatomes. Les travaux présentés ici portent sur lʼétude expérimentale de lʼinfluence des interactions à N corps sur la valeur de la bande interdite des tubes semiconducteurs, la visualisation dans lʼespace direct des orbitales moléculaires des nanotubes et les propriétés des nanotubes dopés par lʼazote en utilisant des mesures de microscopie tunnel, microscopie électronique à balayage et spectroscopie de perte dʼénergie des électrons.

Carbon nanotubes are the focus of considerable research efforts due to their fascinating physical properties. They provide an excellent model system for the study of one-dimensional materials and molecular electronics. The chirality of nanotubes can lead to very different electronic behaviour, either metallic or semiconducting. Their electronic spectrum consists of a series of Van Hove singularities defining a bandgap for semiconducting tubes and molecular orbitals at the corresponding energies. A promising way to tune the nanotubes electronic properties for future applications is to use doping by heteroatoms. Here we report on the experimental investigation of the role of many-body interactions in nanotube bandgaps, the visualization in direct space of the molecular orbitals of nanotubes and the properties of nitrogen doped nanotubes using scanning tunneling microscopy and transmission electron microscopy as well as electron energy loss spectroscopy.

Reçu le : 2011-10-09
Accepté le : 2011-10-19
Publié le : 2011-11-09

DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.013

Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, STM/STS, EELS
Mot clés : Nanotubes de carbone, STM/STS, EELS

Affiliations des auteurs :

Hong Lin ^{1, 2} ; Jérôme Lagoute ² ; Vincent Repain ² ; Cyril Chacon ² ; Yann Girard ² ; Jean-Sébastien Lauret ³ ; Raul Arenal ^{1, 4} ; François Ducastelle ¹ ; Sylvie Rousset ² ; Annick Loiseau ¹

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Hong Lin; Jérôme Lagoute; Vincent Repain; Cyril Chacon; Yann Girard; Jean-Sébastien Lauret; Raul Arenal; François Ducastelle; Sylvie Rousset; Annick Loiseau. Coupled study by TEM/EELS and STM/STS of electronic properties of C- and $ {\text{CN}}_{x}$-nanotubes. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 12 (2011) no. 9-10, pp. 909-920. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.013. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.013/

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