Mechanism of metal-semiconductor transition in electric properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes induced by low-energy electron irradiation

作者:Kanzaki Kenichi; Suzuki Satoru*; Inokawa Hiroshi; Ono Yukinori; Vijayaraghavan Aravind; Kobayashi Yoshihiro
来源:Journal of Applied Physics, 2007, 101(3): 034317.
DOI:10.1063/1.2434822

摘要

Low-energy electron irradiation causes damage in single-walled carbon nanotubes and changes the electric behavior of a nanotube field-effect transistor from metallic to semiconducting at low temperature. The irradiation damage was found to form an energy barrier of several 10 meV in the nanotube channel. We show that the transition behavior can be reasonably explained by the barrier formation and gate-induced band bending.

  • 出版日期2007-2-1