Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects
- 15 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 54 (4), 2600-2606
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.54.2600
Abstract
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. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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