Multiprobe Transport Experiments on Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
- 4 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (18), 4036-4039
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.4036
Abstract
Deposition of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes over multiple (up to seven) Pt nanoelectrodes is realized. Two-probe and four-probe transport measurements between adjacent pairs of electrodes show similar but not identical single-electron Coulomb charging signatures at low temperatures. The observations indicate that nanotubes can behave as a chain of quantum wires connected in series. We argue that the local barriers separating these islands may be caused by bending of the tube near the edges of electrodes.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Electronic structure of atomically resolved carbon nanotubesNature, 1998
- Atomic structure and electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubesNature, 1998
- Strong Tunneling in the Single-Electron TransistorPhysical Review Letters, 1997
- Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wiresNature, 1997
- Single-Electron Transport in Ropes of Carbon NanotubesScience, 1997
- Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon NanotubesScience, 1996
- Electronic structure of chiral graphene tubulesApplied Physics Letters, 1992
- New one-dimensional conductors: Graphitic microtubulesPhysical Review Letters, 1992
- Are fullerene tubules metallic?Physical Review Letters, 1992
- Helical microtubules of graphitic carbonNature, 1991