Electrical transport through carbon nanotube junctions created by mechanical manipulation

By H. Postma, M. D. Jonge, Z. Yao, Cees Dekker. 2000

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Using an atomic force microscope we have created nanotube junctions such as buckles and crossings within individual single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes connected to metallic electrodes. The electronic transport properties of these manipulated structures show that they form electronic tunnel junctions. The conductance shows power-law behavior as a function of bias voltage and temperature, which can be well modeled by a Luttinger liquid model for tunneling between two nanotube segments separated by the manipulated junction.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/356ddea53557eab1e8230c9a4df9c59b8ad86b9e

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