High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes
High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.84.2941
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发表时间:
2000-03-27
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Dekker, C
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作者:
Yao, Z;Kane, CL;Dekker, C
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.