Published July 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects

  • 1. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

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 close-quote 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. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 2600-2606.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
27080168
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
CARBON; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; QUANTIZATION
Descriptors DEC
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ELEMENTS; NONMETALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES