Length control of individual carbon nanotubes by nanostructuring with a scanning tunneling microscope
作者:
Liesbeth C. Venema,
J. W. G. Wildo¨er,
H. L. J. Temminck Tuinstra,
C. Dekker,
A. G. Rinzler,
R. E. Smalley,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 71,
issue 18
页码: 2629-2631
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1063/1.120161
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We present a technique to control the length of carbon nanotubes. Individual carbon nanotubes can be locally cut by applying a voltage pulse to the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Topographic imaging and STM spectroscopy are subsequently used to investigate the result. The electronic properties of a nanotube can be strongly changed by reducing the size. Current-voltage curves obtained by STM spectroscopy on a 30 nm short tube created from a longer nanotube show a stepwise increase of the current, which is attributed to quantum size effects. ©1997 American Institute of Physics.
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