Thermally and Molecularly Stimulated Relaxation of Hot Phonons in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes

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2006-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601139v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

15 pages, 4 figures. J. Phys. Chem. in press

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The high-bias electrical transport properties of suspended metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are investigated at various temperatures in vacuum, in various gases and when coated with molecular solids. It is revealed that non-equilibrium optical phonon effects in suspended nanotubes decrease as the ambient temperature increases. Gas molecules surrounding suspended SWNTs assist the relaxation of hot phonons and afford enhanced current flow along nanotubes. Molecular solids of carbon dioxide frozen onto suspended SWNTs quench the non-equilibrium phonon effect. The discovery of strong environmental effects on high current transport in nanotubes is important to high performance nanoelectronics applications of 1D nanowires in general.

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