Contact resistance of quantum tubes

Niels Asger Mortensen, Kristinn Johnsen, Antti Pekka Jauho, Karsten Flensberg

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Abstract

We consider the conductance of a quantum tube connected to a metallic contact. The number of angular momentum states that the tube can support depends on the strength of the radial confinement. We calculate the transmission coefficients which yield the conductance via the Landauer formula, and discuss the relation of our results to armchair carbon nanotubes embedded in a metal. For Al and Au contacts and tubes with a realistic radial confinement we find that the transmission can be close to unity corresponding to a contact resistance close to h/2e2 per band at the Fermi level in the carbon nanotube.

Original languageEnglish
JournalSuperlattices and Microstructures
Volume26
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)351-361
Number of pages11
ISSN0749-6036
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1999

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