Abstract
The Raman spectra of a wide range of disordered and amorphous carbons have been measured under excitation from 785 to 229 nm. The dispersion of peak positions and intensities with excitation wavelength is used to understand the nature of resonant Raman scattering in carbon and how to derive the local bonding and disorder from the Raman spectra. The spectra show three basic features, the D and G around 1600 and 1350 for visible excitation and an extra T peak, for UV excitation, at ∼1060 . The G peak, due to the stretching motion of pairs, is a good indicator of disorder. It shows dispersion only in amorphous networks, with a dispersion rate proportional to the degree of disorder. Its shift well above 1600 under UV excitation indicates the presence of chains. The dispersion of the D peak is strongest in ordered carbons. It shows little dispersion in amorphous carbon, so that in UV excitation it becomes like a density-of-states feature of vibrations of ringlike structures. The intensity ratio falls with increasing UV excitation in all forms of carbon, with a faster decrease in more ordered carbons, so that it is generally small for UV excitation. The T peak, due to vibrations, only appears in UV Raman, lying around 1060 for H-free carbons and around 980 in hydrogenated carbons. In hydrogenated carbons, the stretching modes around 2920 can be clearly detected for UV excitation. This assignment is confirmed by deuterium substitution.
- Received 23 October 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.075414
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