Electronic behavior in mats of single-walled carbon nanotubes under pressure

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2003-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312307v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Solid State Communications

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.ssc.2003.12.011

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have many interesting properties; they may be metallic or semiconducting depending on their diameter and helicity of the graphene sheet. Hydrostatic or quasi-hydrostatic high pressures can probe many electronic features. Resistance - temperature measurements in SWNTs from normal condition and under 0.4 GPa of quasi-hydrostatic pressures reveal a semiconducting-like behavior. From 0.5 to about 2.0 GPa the resistance changes to a Kondo-like feature due to magnetic impurities used to catalyse the nanotube formation. Above 2.0 GPa, they become metallic and at about 2.4 GPa the resistance decreases dramatically around 3 K suggesting a superconducting transition.

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