Fermi-level alignment at metal-carbon nanotube interfaces: application to scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Abstract
At any metal-carbon nanotube interface there is charge transfer and the induced interfacial field determines the position of the carbon nanotube band structure relative to the metal Fermi-level. In the case of a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) supported on a gold substrate, we show that the charge transfers induce a local electrostatic potential perturbation which gives rise to the observed Fermi-level shift in scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) measurements. We also discuss the relevance of this study to recent experiments on carbon nanotube transistors and argue that the Fermi-level alignment will be different for carbon nanotube transistors with low resistance and high resistance contacts.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908073,
title = {Fermi-level alignment at metal-carbon nanotube interfaces: application to scanning tunneling spectroscopy},
author = {Yongqiang Xue and Supriyo Datta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908073},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 ps figures, minor corrections, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett