Electric-field-dependent charge-carrier velocity in semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
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Charge transport in semiconducting single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) with Schottky-barrier contacts has been studied at high bias. We observe nearly symmetric ambipolar transport with electron and hole currents significantly exceeding 25 microA, the reported current limit in metallic SWNTs due to optical phonon emission. Four simple models for the field-dependent velocity (ballistic, current saturation, velocity saturation, and constant mobility) are studied in the unipolar regime; the high-bias behavior is best explained by a velocity-saturation model with a saturation velocity of 2 x 10(7) cm/s.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 95 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005