Electronic transport in Z-junction carbon nanotubes

Jintao Zhang; Q W Shi; Jinlong Yang

doi:10.1063/1.1689638

Electronic transport in Z-junction carbon nanotubes

J Chem Phys. 2004 Apr 22;120(16):7733-7. doi: 10.1063/1.1689638.

Authors

Jintao Zhang¹, Q W Shi, Jinlong Yang

Affiliation

¹ Structure Research Laboratory and Laboratory of Bond Selective Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 15267685
DOI: 10.1063/1.1689638

Abstract

In this paper, the electronic transport in different Z-shape carbon nanotubes containing double knee junction structures on the same tube is studied. One consists of (5,5)-(9,0)-(5,5) double knee nano-metal-metal-metal junctions and another consists (6,6)-(10,0)-(6,6) double knee nano-metal-semiconductor-metal junctions. With the nearest-neighbor pi-orbital tight-binding model, quantum conductances of these double knee junctions are calculated using the Landauer formula. The interesting conductance curves are provided to exhibit a potential application in the arena of molecular electronics.