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Disorder, Pseudospins, and Backscattering in Carbon Nanotubes

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: We address the effects of disorder on the conducting properties of metal and semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Experimentally, the mean free path is found to be much larger in metallic tubes than in doped semiconducting tubes. We show that this result can be understood theoretically if the disorder potential is long ranged. The effects of a pseudospin index that describes the internal sublattice structure of the states lead to a suppression of scattering in metallic tubes, but not in semiconducting tubes. This conclusion is supported by tight-binding calculations.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.83.5098

Authors: Paul L. McEuen, Marc Bockrath, David H. Cobden, Young-Gui Yoon, Steven G. Louie

Institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Graphene research and applications

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2165607087

FWCI: 17.58

Cites: 19

Cited by: 447

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