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High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes

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Yao, Zhen, Kane, Charles L., Dekker, Cees·2000·Physical Review Letters

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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) A/cm(2). As the bias voltage is increased, the conductance drops dramatically due to scattering of electrons. We show that the current-voltage characteristics can be explained by considering optical or zone-boundary phonon emission as the dominant scattering mechanism at high field.

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  • CNTs and MWCNTs both can carry a current density as high as 1-10^9 amp/cm2.

    “CNTs and MWCNTs both can carry a current density as high as 1 -10 9 amp/cm 2 [101].”

    From Shape-memory polymers for multiple applications in the materials world (2016) · cites this paper as [101]

    The opening summary and discussion on p. 1 report that individual metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes can carry current densities exceeding 10^9 A/cm². The paper studies single-wall nanotubes, so it does not support extending that result to multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  1. [11]J. Tersoff, Appl. Phys. Lett. 74 , 2122 (1999); M.P. Anantram, S. Datta, and Y. Xue, preprint condmat/9907357.

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Authors
Yao, Z., Kane, C. L., & Dekker, C.
Affiliations
  • Delft University of Technology (NL)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2000-03-27
Volume
84
Issue
13
Pages
2941-2944
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
OpenAlex
W2171742305
Cited by
1,501
References
17
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20.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Keywords
single-walled carbon nanotubes, high-field transport, metallic carbon nanotubes, current density, electron scattering, optical phonon emission, zone-boundary phonons, current-voltage characteristics, low-resistance contacts

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