Very low shot noise in carbon nanotubes

Details Very low shot noise in carbon nanotubes Very low shot noise in carbon nanotubes

2002-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202074v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. B (Jan. 2002) Higher resolution pictures are posted on http://www.lps.u-psud.fr/Collectif/gr_07/pub

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2002-00223-9

We have performed noise measurements on suspended ropes of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) between 1 and 300 K for different values of dc current through the ropes. We find that the shot noise is suppressed by more than a factor 100 compared to the full shot noise 2eI. We have also measured an individual SWNT and found a level of noise which is smaller than the minimum expected. Another finding is the very low level of 1/f noise, which is significantly lower than previous observations. We propose two possible interpretations for this strong shot noise reduction: i) Transport within a rope takes place through a few nearly ballistic tubes within a rope and possibly involves non integer effective charges. ii) A substantial fraction of the tubes conduct with a strong reduction of effective charge (by more than a factor 50).

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