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Electronic Properties, Junctions, and Defects of Carbon Nanotubes

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Carbon Nanotubes

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The nanometer dimensions of the carbon nanotubes together with the unique electronic structure of a graphene sheet make the electronic properties of these one-dimensional structures highly unusual. This chapter reviews some theoretical work on the relation between the atomic structure and the electronic and transport properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes. In addition to the ideal tubes, results on the quantum conductance of nanotube junctions and tubes with defects will be discussed. On-tube metal-semiconductor, semiconductor-semiconductor, and metal-metal junctions have been studied. Other defects such as substitutional impurities and pentagon-heptagon defect pairs on tube walls are shown to produce interesting effects on the conductance. The effects of static external perturbations on the transport properties of metallic nanotubes and doped semiconducting nanotubes are examined, with the metallic tubes being much less affected by long-range disorder. The structure and properties of crossed nanotube junctions and ropes of nanotubes have also been studied. The rich interplay between the structural and the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes gives rise to new phenomena and the possibility of nanoscale device applications.

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Louie, S.G. (2001). Electronic Properties, Junctions, and Defects of Carbon Nanotubes. In: Dresselhaus, M.S., Dresselhaus, G., Avouris, P. (eds) Carbon Nanotubes. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39947-X_6

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