Three-terminal scanning tunneling spectroscopy of suspended carbon nanotubes

2005/04/15 by Brian J. LeRoy, B. J. LeRoy, J. Kong +7 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Graphene research and applications #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.72.075413

published as Phys. Rev. B 72, 075413 (2005) · 6 pages, 5 figures

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Abstract

We have performed low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on suspended single-wall carbon nanotubes with a gate electrode allowing three-terminal spectroscopy measurements. These measurements show well-defined Coulomb diamonds as well as side peaks from phonon-assisted tunneling. The side peaks have the same gate voltage dependence as the main Coulomb peaks, directly proving that they are excitations of these states.

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