An RF circuit model for carbon nanotubes

By Peter J. Burke. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, 2002

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We develop an rf circuit model for single walled carbon nanotubes for both dc and capacitively contacted geometries. By modeling the nanotube as a nano-transmission line with distributed kinetic and magnetic inductance as well as distributed quantum and electrostatic capacitance, we calculate the complex, frequency dependent impedance for a variety of measurement geometries. Exciting voltage waves on the nano-transmission line is equivalent to directly exciting the yet-to-be observed one dimensional plasmons, the low energy excitation of a Luttinger liquid.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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Quantitative theory of nanowire and nanotube antenna performance (2004, methodology): “In our recent papers [5]–[8], we considered the electrical properties of a SWNT above a ground plane in some detail.”
Transport effects on signal propagation in quantum wires (2005, methodology): “Perhaps the most well-known are metallic carbon nanotubes for which a novel transmission-line model has been proposed based on Luttinger liquid theory [1]–[10] which was applied by Burke [11], [12] to evaluate potential applications.”
Fundamental transmitting properties of carbon nanotube antennas (2005, background): “Transmission-line modeling of carbon nanotubes is further considered in [13] and [14] and references therein.”
Electrical and thermal transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes on insulating substrates (2006, background): “Several recent studies have analyzed the promise of metallic SWNTs as circuit elements [6-9].”
Carbon-based electronics. (2007, background): “Finally, CNTs have inductance, which is a resistance to any changes in the current flowing through the”
Graphene Terahertz Plasmon Oscillators (2007, background): “like in the case of carbon nanotubes [20], [21], the expression for the kinetic inductance in graphene is frequency and wavevector dependent.”
Luttinger liquid theory as a model of the gigahertz electrical properties of carbon nanotubes (2002, background): “(69) This equation (which is not a new result [1]) defines for an SWNT.”
AC performance of nanoelectronics: towards a ballistic THz nanotube transistor (2004, background): “We have recently proposed an effective circuit model for the ac impedance of a carbon nanotube [1,2].”
Single-Conductor Transmission-Line Model of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes (2010, methodology): “quantum capacitance, and the p.u.l. damping resistance [8]–[ 10 ]”