Contact phenomena in carbon nanotubes
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Poor screening of the long-range Coulomb interaction in one-dimensional carbon nanotubes results in a peculiar picture of contact phenomena. Being brought to a contact with a metal, conducting nanotube accumulates electric charge whose density decays slowly with the distance from the contact. This should be contrasted to a conventional metal-metal contact where the charge density decreases exponentially at atomic distances. Implications for experiments are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906269,
title = {Contact phenomena in carbon nanotubes},
author = {Arkadi A. Odintsov and Yasuhiro Tokura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906269},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2 pages, contributed paper to LT-22, style file phbauth.cls is included