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Electrical Transport Through Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

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We present a brief review of the phenomenal progress in electrical transport measurements in individual and ropes of single-wall carbon nanotubes in the past few years. Nanotubes have been made into single-electron transistors, field-effect transistors, and rectifying diodes. A number of interesting mesoscopic transport phenomena have been observed. More significantly, nanotubes exhibit strong electron-electron correlation effects, or so-called Luttinger liquid behavior, associated with their one-dimensional nature.

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Yao, Z., Dekker, C., Avouris, P. (2001). Electrical Transport Through Single-Wall 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_7

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