Disentanglement of the electronic properties of metallicity-selected single-walled carbon nanotubes

Author(s)
Paola Ayala, Yasumitsu Miyata, Katrien De Blauwe, Hidetsugu Shiozawa, Y Feng, K Yanagi, Christian Kramberger, S.Ravi P. Silva, Rolf Follath, Hiromichi Kataura, Thomas Pichler
Abstract

The inherent structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) provides them tremendous value as archetypical one-dimensional (1D) solids, which exhibit van Hove singularities in their local density of states, Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior, ballistic transport properties, and in many other aspects, features of 1D quantum systems, which allow the study of fundamental problems. Therefore, unraveling the signature of their peculiar electronic structure as pristine material is a prerequisite for tracing any modification. Here, we show the disentanglement of the unique 1D features and bonding environments in clean metallicity sorted nanotube films. The photoemission and x-ray absorption responses unambiguously reveal how the fine structure in the C1s edge and photoemission valence band separately discerns the SWCNT metallic and semiconducting nature. This has crucial implications for applications allowing for instance finding the limit of maximum conductivity in transparent electrodes or the uniformity of power transistors, among others.

Organisation(s)
Electronic Properties of Materials
External organisation(s)
Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya University, University of Surrey
Journal
Physical Review B
Volume
80
No. of pages
5
ISSN
1098-0121
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.205427
Publication date
2009
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103015 Condensed matter
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/disentanglement-of-the-electronic-properties-of-metallicityselected-singlewalled-carbon-nanotubes(67475015-0822-4bd3-a9be-921f539376c5).html