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Carbon nanotube (CNT) is expected for much more important and broader applications in the future, because of its amazing electrical and mechanical properties. However, today, the prospect is detained by the fact that the growth of CNTs…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuang Zhang , Takeo Hoshi , Takeo Fujiwara

We have investigated random telegraph noise (RTN) observed in individual metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Mean lifetimes in high- and low-current states, shigh and slow, have been studied as a function of bias-voltage and gate-voltage as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Hyun-Jong Chung , Tae Woo Uhm , Sung Won Kim , Young Gyu You , Sang Wook Lee , Sung Ho Jhang , Eleanor E. B. Campbell , Yung Woo Park

Miniaturized electronics require lightweight conductors that maintain high conductance under demanding conditions. CNT networks are promising candidates, but their transport is governed by inter-nanotube junctions where electron waves…

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

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) is one of the most significant materials for the development of faster and improved performance of nano-scaled transistors. This paper aims at analyzing a trade-off between device performance and device size of CNT…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Imtiaj Khan , Ovishek Morshed , Sharif Mohammad Mominuzzaman

The paper aims at the development of a digital twin modelling the electrical conductivity of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polymer nanocomposite. A comparative analysis is conducted for various formulations of boundary conditions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-15 N. A. Gudkov , S. V. Lomov , I. S. Akhatov , S. G. Abaimov

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted increasing attention because of their unique structural, mechanical, and electronic properties. Surface chemistry modifications are also useful and critical to manipulate the adsorptive properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-08-15 K. -S. Lin , Ruey-Bing Li , Frank Lee , Li-Cheng Lou , Su-Wei Chiu

Because of their natural one-dimensional (1D) structure combined with intricate chiral variations, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) exhibit various exceptional physical properties, such as ultrahigh electrical and thermal conductivity, exceptional…

Carbon Nanotubes have shown to be an attractive option in the race to find a replacement to silicon-based transistors, due to its high electrical conductivity, extraordinary mechanical strength, and thermal conductivity. However, challenges…

Low-dimensional materials such as layered semiconductors or carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been attracting increasing attention in the last decades due to their inherent scaling properties, which become fundamental to sustain the scaling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Marta Perucchini , Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

Carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber is formed by assembling millions of individual tubes. The assembly feature provides the fiber with rich interface structures and thus various ways of energy dissipation, as reflected by the non-zero loss tangent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-18 Jingna Zhao , Xiaohua Zhang , Zhijuan Pan , Qingwen Li

The one-dimensional confinement of quasiparticles in individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) leads to extremely anisotropic electronic and optical properties. In a macroscopic ensemble of randomly oriented CNTs, this anisotropy disappears…

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors with sub 20 nm long channels and on/off current ratios of > 1000000 are demonstrated. Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes with diameters ranging from 0.7 nm to 1.1 nm grown from structured…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 R. V. Seidel , A. P. Graham , J. Kretz , B. Rajasekharan , G. S. Duesberg , M. Liebau , E. Unger , F. Kreupl , W. Hoenlein

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

Macroscopic fibers of carbon nanotubes (CNT) have emerged as an ideal architecture to exploit the exceptional properties of CNT building blocks in applications ranging from energy storage to reinforcement in structural composites.…

Nanometer thin single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) films collected from the aerosol chemical deposition reactors have gathered attention for their promising applications. Densification of these pristine films provides an important way to…

The structures and symmetries of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are introduced in detail. The physical properties of SWNTs induced by their symmetries can be described by tensors in mathematical point of view. It is found that there…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Z. C. Tu , Z. C. Ou-Yang

We present a mechanism to improve the conductivity of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks by improving the conductance between CNTs of different chirality. We argue generally that a weak perturbation can greatly improve the inter-tube…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Robert A. Bell , Michael C. Payne , Arash A. Mostofi

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

Transistors made up of carbon nanotubes CNT have demonstrated excellent current-voltage characteristics which outperform some high-grade silicon-based transistors. A continuously tunable energy barrier across semiconductor interfaces is…