Phonon-Assisted Intertube Electronic Transport in an Armchair Carbon Nanotube Film

Adinehloo, Davoud; Gao, Weilu; Mojibpour, Ali; Kono, Junichiro; Perebeinos, Vasili

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.130.176303

Phonon-Assisted Intertube Electronic Transport in an Armchair Carbon Nanotube Film

Journal Article · Fri Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.176303· OSTI ID:2419165

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Univ. at Buffalo, NY (United States); OSTI
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
Univ. at Buffalo, NY (United States)

The electrical conductivity of a macroscopic assembly of nanomaterials is determined through a complex interplay of electronic transport within and between constituent nano-objects. Phonons play dual roles in this situation: their increased populations tend to reduce the conductivity via electron scattering, while they can boost the conductivity by assisting electrons to propagate through the potential-energy landscape. Here, we identified a phonon-assisted coherent electron transport process between neighboring nanotubes in temperature-dependent conductivity measurements on a macroscopic film of armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes. Through atomistic modeling of electronic states and calculations of both electronic and phonon-assisted junction conductances, we conclude that phonon-assisted conductance is the dominant mechanism for observed high-temperature transport in armchair carbon nanotubes. The unambiguous manifestation of coherent intertube dynamics proves a single-chirality armchair nanotube film to be a unique macroscopic solid-state ensemble of nano-objects promising for the development of room-temperature coherent electronic devices.

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Research Organization:: Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Robert A. Welch Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-06ER46308

OSTI ID:: 2419165

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 130; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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