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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Theoretical Study of Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbed on the Silicon (100) Surface, And, Explorations on the Modulation of Conductance for Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract
dc:descriptionFinally, and in a different direction, we calculate the effects of a longitudinal electrostatic perturbation on a metallic carbon nanotube to demonstrate conductance modulation. The external modulation would be screened in bulk metals but occurs in nanotubes because of their quasi two-dimensional shape allowing electrons to interact with nearby charges. This modulation is determined by the strength of the self-consistent potential and its periodicity over shorter or longer distances. We employ the zero temperature single-particle Green's function transport approach in the empirical tight-binding approximation to quantify the conductance.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Barraza Lopez, Salvador
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Hess, Karl
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3242791
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80535