Abstract
The theoretical results for the temperature dependence of the thermoelectric power of graphite and semimetal carbon nanotubes are reported. In the calculations, the cylindrical superatomic range structure of nanotubes is taken into account. The Boltzmann equation and the π-electron model of semimetal carbon nanotubes are used. The basic parameters of the calculation are the concentration of electrons, the Fermi energy, and the energy of the local level associated with the cylindrical structure of carbon nanotubes. The theoretical results are compared with the available experimental data.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Mavrinskiy, E.M. Baitinger, 2009, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 501–506.