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Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibres are firmly established as a new high-performance fibre, but their tensile mechanical properties remain a relatively small fraction of those of the constituent CNTs. Clear structure-property relations and…

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Junctionless transistors made of silicon have previously been demonstrated experimentally and by simulations. Junctionless devices do not require fabricating an abrupt source-drain junction and thus can be easier to implement in aggressive…

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have many interesting properties; they may be metallic or semiconducting depending on their diameter and helicity of the graphene sheet. Hydrostatic or quasi-hydrostatic high pressures can probe many…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Falconi , J. A. Azamar , R. Escudero

Molecular level components, like carbon multiwalled nanotubes (MWNT), show great potential for future nanoelectronics. At low frequencies, only the outermost carbon layer determines the transport properties of the MWNT. Due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Ahlskog , Pertti Hakonen , Mikko Paalanen , Leif Roschier , Reeta Tarkiainen

Efforts aimed at large-scale integration of nanoelectronic devices that exploit the superior electronic and mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) remain limited by the difficulties associated with manipulation and…

We present the results of analytical study and Molecular Dynamics simulation of low energy nonlinear non-stationary dynamics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). New phenomena of intensive energy exchange between different parts of CNT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Valeri V. Smirnov , Leonid I. Manevitch , Matteo Strozzi , Francesco Pelicano

A method is introduced to isolate and measure the electrical transport properties of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) aligned on an ST-cut quartz, from room temperature down to 2 K. The diameter and chirality of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Tohru Watanabe , El-Hadi S. Sadki , Takahide Yamaguchi , Yoshihiko Takano

Single ion detection has, for many years, been the domain of large devices such as the Geiger counter, and studies on interactions of ionized gasses with materials have been limited to large systems. To date, there have been no reports on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Adam W. Bushmaker , Vanessa Oklejas , Don Walker , Alan R. Hopkins , Jihan Chen , Stephen B. Cronin

The phonon and electron transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are investigated using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach. In zigzag SWCNT ($n$, 0) with $mod(n,3)\not=0$, the thermal conductance is mainly attributed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We report electrical transport measurements through a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) with three additional top-gates. At low temperatures the system acts as a double quantum dot with large inter-dot tunnel coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Graeber , W. A. Coish , C. Hoffmann , M. Weiss , J. Furer , S. Oberholzer , D. Loss , C. Schoenenberger

We theoretically study the magnetoresistance of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in the ballistic transport regime, using a standard tight-binding approach. The main attention is directed to spin-polarized electrical transport in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Krompiewski , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We investigate the piezoresistive effect of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within density functional theory (DFT) aiming at application-relevant CNTs. CNTs are excellent candidates for the usage in nano-electromechanical sensors (NEMS) due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 C. Wagner , J. Schuster , T. Gessner

Carbon nanotubes are of central importance for applications in nano-electronics thanks to their exceptional transport properties. They can be used as sensors, for example in biological applications, provided that they are functionalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Ghassen Jemaï , Jouda Khabthani , Guy Trambly de Laissardière , Didier Mayou

We study spin-orbit coupling in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within the many-body Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) framework. For a well defined sub-class of metallic CNTs, that contains both achiral zig-zag as well as a sub-set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 Piotr Chudzinski

We present quantum simulations of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) based on top-gated architectures and compare to electrical characterization on devices with 15 nm channel lengths. A non-equilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Alfonso Sanchez-Soares , Thomas Kelly , Giorgos Fagas , James C. Greer , Edward Chen

A fresh look on carbon-based transistor channel materials like single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in future electronic applications is given. Although theoretical predictions initially promised that GNR…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-26 Franz Kreupl

The electrostatic coupling between singled-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks/arrays and planar gate electrodes in thin-film transistors (TFTs) is analyzed both in the quantum limit with an analytical model and in the classical limit…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Qing Cao , Minggang Xia , Coskun Kocabas , Moonsub Shim , John A. Rogers , Slava V. Rotkin

Chemical sensing properties of single wire and mat form sensor structures fabricated from the same carbon nanotube (CNT) materials have been compared. Sensing properties of CNT sensors were evaluated upon electrical response in the presence…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-25 P. L. Neumann , V. I. Obreczán , G. Dobrik , K. Kertész , E. Horváth , I. E. Lukács , L. P. Biró , Z. E. Horváth

Using first-principles calculations, we examine the electronic and magnetic properties of partially open zigzag carbon nanotube (CNT) superlattices. It is found that depending on their opening degree, these superlattices can exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Bing Huang , Zuanyi Li , Young-Woo Son , Gunn Kim , Wenhui Duan , Jisoon Ihm

We performed studies of coherent electronic transport through a single walled carbon nanotube. In the calculations multiple scattering on the contacts and interference processes were taken into account. Conductance is a composition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 W. Iwo Babiaczyk , Bogdan. R. Bulka