Tunneling conductance of connected carbon nanotubes
- 15 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 53 (4), 2044-2050
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.53.2044
Abstract
A three-dimensional structure of two carbon nanotubes (CN) joined by a connecting region containing a pentagon and heptagon pair is given by the use of a projection method. The connecting joint is uniquely determined for the given two chiral vectors of CN by a vector which defines a three-dimensional dihedral angle. The tunneling conductance is calculated for a metal-metal CN junction and a metal-semiconducting CN junction. The calculated results clearly show that these junctions work as the smallest semiconductor devices.Keywords
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