QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE OF CARBON NANOTUBES WITH DEFECTS

Authors
CHICO L BENEDICT LX LOUIE SG COHEN ML
Citation
L. Chico et al., QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE OF CARBON NANOTUBES WITH DEFECTS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 54(4), 1996, pp. 2600-2606
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Physical review. B, Condensed matter → ACNP
ISSN journal
01631829
Volume
54
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
2600 - 2606
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-1829(1996)54:4<2600:QCOCNW>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We study the conductance of metallic carbon nanotubes with vacancies a nd pentagon-heptagon pair defects within the Landauer formalism. Using a tight-binding model and a Green's function technique to calculate t he scattering matrix, we examine the one-dimensional to two-dimensiona l crossover in these systems and show the existence of metallic tube j unctions in which the conductance is suppressed for symmetry reasons.