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The use of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs) in microwave circuit design requires an appropriate, immediate and efficient description of their performance. This work describes a technique to extract the parameters of an…

Some instances of electron field emitters are characterized by frequency-dependent hysteresis in their current-voltage characteristics. We argue that such emitters can be classified as memristive systems and introduce a general framework to…

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We simulated the behavior of suspended carbon-nanotube (CNT) resonators over a broad range of temperatures to address the unexplained spectral broadening and frequency shifts seen in experiments. We find that thermal fluctuations induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Arthur W. Barnard , Vera Sazonova , Arend M. van der Zande , Paul L. McEuen

We exploit the near field enhancement of nano-antennas to investigate the Raman spectra of otherwise not optically detectable carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We demonstrate that a top-down fabrication approach is particularly promising when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Nicola Paradiso , Fatemeh Yaghobian , Christoph Lange , Tobias Korn , Christian Schüller , Rupert Huber , Christoph Strunk

Metallic cantilever in high vacuum atomic force microscope has been used as anode for field emission experiments from densely packed vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The high spatial resolution provided by the scanning…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-10 F. Giubileo , A. Di Bartolomeo , A. Scarfato , L. Iemmo , F. Bobba , M. Passacantando , S. Santucci , A. M. Cucolo

Time-dependent fields are a valuable tool to control fundamental quantum phenomena in highly coherent low dimensional electron systems. Carbon nanotubes and graphene are a promising ground for these studies. Here we offer a brief overview…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 L. E. F. Foa Torres , G. Cuniberti

Electron emission from nanometric size emitters becomes of increasing interest due to its involvement to sharp electron sources, vacuum breakdown phenomena and various other vacuum nanoelectronics applications. The most commonly used…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-22 Andreas Kyritsakis , Flyura Djurabekova

We study theoretically the electron transport properties in carbon nanotubes under the influence of an external electric field E(t) using Boltzmann's equation. The current-density equation is derived. Negative differential conductivity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 S. S. Abukari , S. Y. Mensah N. G. Mensah , K. W. Adu , K. A. Dompreh , A. K. Twum

Dielectric properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT) are calculated with taking into account the deviation of carbon valence electrons from to be placed exactly on the CNT surface. The results show difference to the usually applied 2D electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 V. A. Aleksandrov , A. V. Stepanov , G. M. Filippov

We describe the electro-thermal transport in metallic carbon nanotubes (m-CNTs) by a semi-classical approach that takes into account the high-field dynamical interdependence between charge carrier and phonon populations. Our model is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcelo A. Kuroda , Jean Pierre Leburton

High-performance single-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (SWNT-FETs) are fabricated using directed assembly and mass-produced carbon nanotubes (CNTs). These FETs exhibit operating characteristics comparable to state-of-the-art…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. McGill , S. G. Rao , P. Manandhar , S. Hong , P. Xiong

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are nonlinear high-Q resonators with strong coupling to single-electron tunneling. We begin by describing several methods to detect the flexural motion of a CNT resonator. Next, we illustrate how single-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Harold B. Meerwaldt , Gary A. Steele , Herre S. J. van der Zant

Substantial progress on field effect transistors "FETs" consisting of semiconducting single wall carbon nanotubes "s-SWNTs" without detectable traces of metallic nanotubes and impurities is reported. Nearly perfect removal of metallic…

We have studied photocurrent generation in large carbon nanotube (CNT) films using electrodes with different spacings. We observe that the photocurrent depends strongly on the position of illumination, with maximum observed response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

A new framework that can be utilized for the electrodynamics of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with non-local surface conductivity (spatial dispersion) is presented. The model of non-local conductivity is developed on the basis of the Kubo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Tomer Berghaus , Touvia Miloh , Oded Gottlieb , Gregory Ya. Slepyan

Low-temperature measurements of asymmetric carbon nanotube (CNT) quantum dots are reported. The CNTs are end-contacted with one ferromagnetic and one normal-metal electrode. The measurements show a spin-dependent rectification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

In this thesis, I explored the use of several machine learning techniques, including neural networks, simulation-based inference, and generative flow networks, on predicting CNTFETs performance, probing the conductivity properties of CNT…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Shulin Tan

A simple method to calculate the static electric polarization of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) is obtained within the second-order perturbation approximation. The results are in agreement with the previous calculation within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin Zhou , Hu Chen , Ou-Yang Zhong-can

The interaction of circularly polarized light with chiral matter and functional devices enables novel phenomena and applications. Recently, wafer-scale solid-state single-enantiomer carbon nanotube (CNT) films have become feasible and are…

Optical emission from carbon nanotube transistors (CNTFETs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its potential applications. In this paper, we use a self-consistent numerical solution of the Boltzmann transport equation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-12 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Vasili Perebeinos , Mark S. Lundstrom , Phaedon Avouris