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Plasmons in C60, Carbon Onions and Carbon Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Daniel Östling
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
Arne RosÉn
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
Peter Apell
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
Gautam Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay-400 076, India
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Abstract

After the discovery of the C60 molecule a lot of attention has been given to its optical and collective properties. The latest development in fullerene related research was the synthesis of coaxial carbon sheets called carbon or nano tubes and also spherical concentric graphitic shells called carbon onions. With a model describing the collective dynamics of electrons we may gain insight in the physics of the collective resonances. Based on a simple equation of motion for the induced density in a carbon particle we demonstrate the existence of a rich spectrum of collective resonances for both carbon onions and carbon tubes.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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