Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects

被引:430
作者
Chico, L
Benedict, LX
Louie, SG
Cohen, ML
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT PHYS,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[2] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,DIV MAT SCI,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1996年 / 54卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.54.2600
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We study the conductance of metallic carbon nanotubes with vacancies and pentagon-heptagon pair defects within the Landauer formalism. Using a tight-binding model and a Green's function technique to calculate the scattering matrix, we examine the one-dimensional to two-dimensional crossover in these systems and show the existence of metallic tube junctions in which the conductance is suppressed for symmetry reasons.
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页码:2600 / 2606
页数:7
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