{
  "id": "cond-mat/0504004",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-03-31T21:44:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-03-31T21:44:42.000Z",
  "title": "Ballistic transport and electrostatics in metallic carbon nanotubes",
  "authors": [
    "A. Svizhenko",
    "M. P. Anantram",
    "T. R. Govindan"
  ],
  "doi": "10.1109/TNANO.2005.851409",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We calculate the current and electrostatic potential drop in metallic carbon nanotube wires self-consistently, by solving the Green's function and electrostatics equations in the ballistic case. About one tenth of the applied voltage drops across the bulk of a nanowire, independent of the lengths considered here. The remaining nine tenths of the bias drops near the contacts, thereby creating a non linear potential drop. The scaling of the electric field at the center of the nanotube with length (L) is faster than 1/L (roughly $1/L^{1.25-1.75}$). At room temperature, the low bias conductance of large diameter nanotubes is larger than $4e^2/h$ due to occupation of non crossing subbands. The physics of conductance evolution with bias due to the transmission Zener tunneling in non crossing subbands is discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-03-31T21:44:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "ballistic transport",
      "non crossing subbands",
      "metallic carbon nanotube wires",
      "non linear potential drop"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology",
      "year": 2005,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 4,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": 557
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2005ITNan...4..557S"
    }
  }
}