Shot noise in carbon nanotubes

Philippe-Emmanuel Roche; Mathieu Kociak; Meydi Ferrier; Sophie Gueron; Alik Kasumov; Bertrand Reulet; Helene Bouchiat

doi:10.1117/12.488854

8 May 2003 Shot noise in carbon nanotubes

Philippe-Emmanuel Roche, Mathieu Kociak, Meydi Ferrier, Sophie Gueron, Alik Kasumov, Bertrand Reulet, Helene Bouchiat

Proceedings Volume 5115, Noise and Information in Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Standards; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.488854
Event: SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes may constitute the ultimate conducting wires for nano-electronics, with their diameters as small as a few tens of atoms and their length of order one micrometer. Because of the particular band structure of graphite, nanotubes have at most two conducting channels, which makes them a one dimensional conductor with very exotic properties. Experimental investigations have indeed shown non conventional features, such as non-ohmic behavior, superconductivity and an ability to carry a huge current density. We have carried out shot noise measurements on nanotubes which are suspended between metallic electrodes. One consequence of the suspended geometry is a very low 1/f noise, thereby enabling the extraction of shot noise. In bundles of nanotubes, we find a reduction of shot noise by more than a factor 100 compared to the full noise 2.e.I expected for uncorrelated electrons. A low noise is also found in an isolated single wall nanotube. In a simple non-interacting-electron picture, such a low shot noise implies that the electrical conduction through a bundle of nanotubes is concentrated in a few ballistic tubes. Another interpretation however would be that a substantial fraction of the tubes conduct with a strong reduction of the effective charge (more than a factor 50) due to electron-electron interaction.

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Philippe-Emmanuel Roche, Mathieu Kociak, Meydi Ferrier, Sophie Gueron, Alik Kasumov, Bertrand Reulet, and Helene Bouchiat "Shot noise in carbon nanotubes", Proc. SPIE 5115, Noise and Information in Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Standards, (8 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.488854

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