Multi-Stable Conductance States in Metallic Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes |
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Authors: | Dongsheng Tang Yong Wang Huajun Yuan Lijie Ci Weiya Zhou Sishen Xie |
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Affiliation: | (1) Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Information Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China;(2) Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China |
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Abstract: | Electrical transport properties of individual metallic double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) were measured down to liquid
helium temperature, and multi-stable conductance states were found in DWCNTs. At a certain temperature, DWCNTs can switch
continuously between two or more electronic states, but below certain temperature, DWCNTs are stable only at one of them.
The temperature for switching is always different from tube to tube, and even different from thermal cycle to cycle for the
same tube. In addition to thermal activation, gate voltage scanning can also realize such switching among different electronic
states. The multi-stable conductance states in metallic DWCNTs can be attributed to different Fermi level or occasional scattering
centers induced by different configurations between their inner and outer tubes. |
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Keywords: | Carbon nanotube Electrical transport property Intertube interaction |
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