Single-wall-carbon-nanotube/single-carbon-chain molecular junctions

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作者
Boerrnert, Felix [1 ]
Boerrnert, Carina [3 ]
Gorantla, Sandeep [1 ]
Liu, Xianjie [2 ]
Bachmatiuk, Alicja [1 ]
Joswig, Jan-Ole [4 ]
Wagner, Frank R. [3 ]
Schaeffel, Franziska [1 ]
Warner, Jamie H. [5 ]
Schoenfelder, Ronny [1 ]
Rellinghaus, Bernd [1 ]
Gemming, Thomas [1 ]
Thomas, Juergen [1 ]
Knupfer, Martin [1 ]
Buechner, Bernd [1 ]
Ruemmeli, Mark H. [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Leibniz Inst Festkorper & Werkstoffforsch Dresden, D-01171 Dresden, Germany
[2] Linkopings Univ, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden
[3] Max Planck Inst Chem Phys Fester Stoffe, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
[4] Tech Univ Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[5] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PH, England
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2010年 / 81卷 / 08期
关键词
GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; ATOM WIRES; FULLERENES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.085439
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Stable junctions between a single carbon chain and two single-wall carbon nanotubes were produced via coalescence of functionalized fullerenes filled into a single-wall carbon nanotube and directly imaged by in situ transmission electron microscopy. First principles quantum chemical calculations support the observed stability of such molecular junctions. They also show that short carbon chains bound to other carbon structures are cumulenes and stable semiconductors due to Peierls-like distortion. Junctions like this can be regarded as archetypical building blocks for all-carbon molecular electronics.
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