An RF circuit model for carbon nanotubes

P.J. Burke1
1Integrated Nanosytems Research Facility, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Tóm tắt

We develop an rf circuit model for single walled carbon nanotubes for both dc and capacitively contacted geometries. By modeling the nanotube as a nano-transmission line with distributed kinetic and magnetic inductance as well as distributed quantum and electrostatic capacitance, we calculate the complex, frequency dependent impedance for a variety of measurement geometries. Exciting voltage waves on the nano-transmission line is equivalent to directly exciting the yet-to-be observed one dimensional plasmons, the low energy excitation of a Luttinger liquid.

Từ khóa

#Radio frequency #Circuits #Carbon nanotubes #Solid modeling #Geometry #Kinetic theory #Electrostatics #Quantum capacitance #Frequency dependence #Impedance

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