Spatially resolved scanning tunneling spectroscopy on single-walled carbon nanotubes

L. C. Venema, J. W. Janssen, M. R. Buitelaar, J. W. G. Wildöer, S. G. Lemay, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and C. Dekker
Phys. Rev. B 62, 5238 – Published 15 August 2000
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Abstract

Scanning tunneling microscope spectroscopy is used to study in detail the electronic band structure of carbon nanotubes as well as to locally investigate electronic features of interesting topological sites such as nanotube ends and bends. From a large number of measurements of the tunneling density-of-states (DOS) nanotubes can be classified, according to predictions, as either semiconducting (two-third of the total number of tubes) or metallic (one-third). The energy subband separations in the tunneling DOS compare reasonably well to theoretical calculations. At nanotube ends, spatially resolved spectra show additional sharp conductance peaks that shift in energy as a function of position. Spectroscopy measurements on a nanotube kink suggest that the kink is a heterojunction between a semiconducting and a metallic nanotube.

  • Received 24 January 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.5238

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

L. C. Venema, J. W. Janssen, M. R. Buitelaar*, J. W. G. Wildöer, S. G. Lemay, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and C. Dekker

  • Department of Applied Sciences and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands

  • *Present address: Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

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Vol. 62, Iss. 8 — 15 August 2000

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