| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 69, Number 6, March 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 1003 - 1009 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10434-8 | |
| Published online | 16 February 2005 | |
Conductance modulation of metallic carbon nanotubes by remote charged rings
1
Department of Physics and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 405 North Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801, USA
2
Physics Department, Lehigh University - 16 East Memorial Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
Received:
22
October
2004
Accepted:
17
January
2005
We calculate the effects of a longitudinal electrostatic perturbation on a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube and demonstrate conductance modulation. Such external modulation would be completely screened in bulk 3D metals but is possible in SWNTs because their electrons are quasi–two-dimensional and can interact with a nearby system of charges. The resultant modulation of the conductance is determined by the strength of the self-consistent potential and its periodicity over shorter or longer distances. We employ the zero-temperature single-particle Green's function transport approach in the empirical tight-binding approximation to quantify the modulation of conductance and also consider the limit of a superlattice.
PACS: 73.63.Fg – Nanotubes / 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 73.23.Ad – Ballistic transport
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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