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SCIENCE
Volume 289, Issue 5485, Pages 1730-1733Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5485.1730
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The electronic spectra of carbon nanotubes and other nanoscale systems are quantized because of their small radii. Similar quantization in the phonon spectra has been difficult to observe because of the far smaller energy scale. We probed this regime by measuring the temperature-dependent specific heat of purified single-wall nanotubes. The data show direct evidence of one-dimensional quantized phonon subbands. Above 4 kelvin, they are in excellent agreement with model calculations of individual nanotubes and differ markedly from the specific heat of two-dimensional graphene or three-dimensional graphite. Detailed modeling yields an energy of 4.3 millielectron volts for the Lowest quantized phonon subband and a tube-tube (or lattice) Debye energy of 1.1 millielectron volts, implying a small intertube coupling in bundles.
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