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Research Article

Contactless probing of the intrinsic carrier transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Yize Stephanie LiJun GeJinhua CaiJie ZhangWei LuJia LiuLiwei Chen( )
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-BionicsChinese Academy of Sciences, SuzhouJiangsu215123China

Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Present address: Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Intrinsic carrier transport properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes have been probed by two parallel methods on the same individual tubes: The contactless dielectric force microscopy (DFM) technique and the conventional field-effect transistor (FET) method. The dielectric responses of SWNTs are strongly correlated with electronic transport of the corresponding FETs. The DC bias voltage in DFM plays a role analogous to the gate voltage in FET. A microscopic model based on the general continuity equation and numerical simulation is built to reveal the link between intrinsic properties such as carrier concentration and mobility and the macroscopic observable, i.e. dielectric responses, in DFM experiments. Local transport barriers in nanotubes, which influence the device transport behaviors, are also detected with nanometer scale resolution.

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Li YS, Ge J, Cai J, et al. Contactless probing of the intrinsic carrier transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Research, 2014, 7(11): 1623-1630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0522-z

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Received: 03 May 2014
Revised: 18 June 2014
Accepted: 23 June 2014
Published: 16 August 2014
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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