Extreme Magneto-transport of Bulk Carbon Nanotubes in Sorted Electronic Concentrations and Aligned High Performance Fiber

Bulmer, John S.; Lekawa-Raus, Agnieszka; Rickel, Dwight G.; Balakirev, Fedor F.; Koziol, Krzysztof K.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12546-6

Extreme Magneto-transport of Bulk Carbon Nanotubes in Sorted Electronic Concentrations and Aligned High Performance Fiber

Journal Article · Fri Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12546-6· OSTI ID:1412911

Bulmer, John S. ^[1]; Lekawa-Raus, Agnieszka ^[2]; Rickel, Dwight G. ^[3]; Balakirev, Fedor F. ^[3]; Koziol, Krzysztof K. ^[4]

Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
Cranfield Univ., Bedfordshire (United Kingdom)

We explored high-field (60 T) magneto-resistance (MR) with two carbon nanotube (CNT) material classes: (1) unaligned single-wall CNTs (SWCNT) films with controlled metallic SWCNT concentrations and doping degree and (2) CNT fiber with aligned, long-length microstructure. All unaligned SWCNT films showed localized hopping transport where high-field MR saturation definitively supports spin polarization instead of a more prevalent wave function shrinking mechanism. Nitric acid exposure induced an insulator to metal transition and reduced the positive MR component. Aligned CNT fiber, already on the metal side of the insulator to metal transition, had positive MR without saturation and was assigned to classical MR involving electronic mobility. Subtracting high-field fits from the aligned fiber’s MR yielded an unconfounded negative MR, which was assigned to weak localization. It is concluded that fluctuation induced tunnelling, an extrinsic transport model accounting for most of the aligned fiber’s room temperature resistance, appears to lack MR field dependence.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1412911

Report Number(s):: LA--UR-17-30075

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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