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- Title
Tuning the conductance of single-walled carbon nanotubes by ion irradiation in the Anderson localization regime.
- Authors
Gómez-Navarro, C.; de Pablo, P. J.; Gómez-Herrero, J.; Biel, B.; Garcia-Vidal, F. J.; Rubio, A.; Flores, F.
- Abstract
Carbon nanotubes are a good realization of one-dimensional crystals where basic science and potential nanodevice applications merge. Defects are known to modify the electrical resistance of carbon nanotubes; they can be present in as-grown carbon nanotubes, but controlling their density externally opens a path towards the tuning of the electronic characteristics of the nanotube. In this work, consecutive Ar+ irradiation doses are applied to single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) producing a uniform density of defects. After each dose, the room-temperature resistance versus SWNT length (R(L)) along the nanotube is measured. Our data show an exponential dependence of R(L) indicating that the system is within the strong Anderson localization regime. Theoretical simulations demonstrate that mainly di-vacancies contribute to the resistance increase induced by irradiation, and that just a 0.03% of di-vacancies produces an increase of three orders of magnitude in the resistance of a SWNT of 400 nm length.
- Subjects
LETTERS to the editor; NANOTUBES
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2005, Vol 4, Issue 7, p534
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1038/nmat1414