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Using low-resistance electrical contacts, we have measured the intrinsic high-field transport properties of metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes. Individual nanotubes appear to be able to carry currents with a density exceeding 10^9…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhen Yao , Charles L. Kane , Cees Dekker

We present a systematic experimental investigation of the reactions between hydrogen plasma and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) at various temperatures. Microscopy, infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy and electrical transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Guangyu Zhang , Pengfei Qi , Xinran Wang , Yuerui Lu , David Mann , Xiaolin Li , Hongjie Dai

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have recently attracted attention as materials for flexible thermoelectric devices. To provide theoretical guideline of how defects influence the thermoelectric performance of CNTs, we theoretically studied the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Masato Ohnishi , Takuma Shiga , Junichiro Shiomi

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a one-dimensional material system with intriguing physical properties that lead to emerging applications. While CNTs are unusually strain resistant compared to bulk materials, their optical-absorption spectrum is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Christian Wagner , Jörg Schuster , André Schleife

A complex quantum dot circuit based on a clean and suspended carbon nanotube embedded in a circuit quantum electrodynamique (cQED) architecture is a very attractive platform to investigate a large spectrum of physics phenomena ranging from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 T. Cubaynes , L. C. Contamin , M. C. Dartiailh , M. M. Desjardins , A. Cottet , M. R. Delbecq , T. Kontos

Carbon nanotubes provide a new class of molecular wires that display new and exciting mesoscopic transport properties. We provide a detailed theoretical description for transport in multi-wall nanotubes, where both disorder and strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Egger , A. O. Gogolin

Using Molecular Dynamics approach we investigated the structure, dynamics of water confined inside pristine and charged 6,6 carbon nanotubes (CNTs). This study reports the breakdown of 1D water wires and the emergence of triangular faced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Shashank Pant

Under which conditions do the electrical transport properties of one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and 2D graphene become equivalent? We have performed atomistic calculations of the phonon-limited electrical mobility in graphene…

Carbon nanotubes exhibit many unique intrinsic physical and chemical properties and have been intensively explored for biological and biomedical applications. In this review, we summarize the main results of our and other groups in this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-10 Zhuang Liu , Scott Tabakman , Kevin Welsher , Hongjie Dai

Transformation of carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes, CNTs, by electrolysis in molten carbonates provides a low cost route to extract and store this greenhouse gas. CNTs are more stable, compact and valuable than fuels or other CO2…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-11 Stuart Licht , Matthew Lefler , Jiawen Ren , Juan Vicini

Carbon nanotubes are a fraction of the size of transistors used in today's best microchips, as it could reduce power demands and heating in next electronics revolution. Present study investigates the electronic and magnetic structure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-09 Sanjeev Gautama , P. Thakur , S. Augustine , J. K. Kang , J. -Y. Kim , N. B. Brookes , K. Asokan , Keun Hwa Chae

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) hold enormous technological promise. It can only be harnessed if one controls in a practical way the CNT chirality, the feature of the tubular carbon topology that governs all the CNT properties---electronic, optical,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-18 Vasilii I. Artyukhov , Evgeni S. Penev , Boris I. Yakobson

We demonstrate assembly of solution processed semiconducting enriched (99%) single walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWNT) in an array with varying linear density via ac-dielectrophoresis and investigate detailed electronic transport properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Biddut K. Sarker , Shashank Shekhar , Saiful I. Khondaker

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

We present first-principles calculations of phase coherent electron transport in a carbon nanotube (CNT) with realistic contacts. We focus on the zero-bias response of open metallic CNT's considering two archetypal contact geometries (end…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. Palacios , A. J. Perez-Jimenez , E. Louis , E. SanFabian , J. A. Verges

We report the realization and characterization of independently controllable tunnel barriers within a carbon nanotube. The nanotubes are mechanically bent or kinked using an atomic force microscope, and top gates are subsequently placed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. J. Biercuk , N. Mason , J. M. Chow , C. M. Marcus

Carbon nanotubes (CTNs) with large aspect-ratios are extensively used to establish electrical connectedness in polymer melts at very low CNT loadings. However, the CNT size polydispersity and the quality of the dispersion are still not…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-10 Maryam Majidian , Claudio Grimaldi , László Forró , Arnaud Magrez

A simple process for chemical vapor deposition of ultra SD single wall carbon nanotubes has been developed. In this process, an iron nitrate nonahydrate solution in isopropyl alcohol with a concentration of 400 ug/mlit was used to catalyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Nima Arjmandi , Pejhman Sasanpour , Bijan Rashidian

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…

Large arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), open at one end, could be used as target material for the directional detection of weakly interacting dark matter particles (WIMPs). As a result of a WIMP elastic scattering on a CNT, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-20 G. Cavoto , E. N. M. Cirillo , F. Cocina , J. Ferretti , A. D. Polosa