Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes

Bushmaker, Adam W.; Oklejas, Vanessa; Walker, Don; Hopkins, Alan R.; Chen, Jihan; Cronin, Stephen B.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10475

Title: Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes

Journal Article · Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10475· OSTI ID:1242979

Bushmaker, Adam W. ^[1]; Oklejas, Vanessa ^[1]; Walker, Don ^[1]; Hopkins, Alan R. ^[1]; Chen, Jihan ^[2]; Cronin, Stephen B. ^[2]

The Aerospace Corp., Segundo, CA (United States)
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Single-ion detection has, for many years, been the domain of large devices such as the Geiger counter, and studies on interactions of ionized gasses with materials have been limited to large systems. To date, there have been no reports on single gaseous ion interaction with microelectronic devices, and single neutral atom detection techniques have shown only small, barely detectable responses. Here we report the observation of single gaseous ion adsorption on individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which, because of the severely restricted one-dimensional current path, experience discrete, quantized resistance increases of over two orders of magnitude. Only positive ions cause changes, by the mechanism of ion potentialinduced carrier depletion, which is supported by density functional and Landauer transport theory. Lastly, our observations reveal a new single-ion/CNT heterostructure with novel electronic properties, and demonstrate that as electronics are ultimately scaled towards the one-dimensional limit, atomic-scale effects become increasingly important.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46376

OSTI ID:: 1242979

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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