A. V. Chaplik, “Electronic spectrum and ballistic transport in bent nanotubes”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2004, Volume 80, Issue 2,Pages <nobr>140

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Electronic spectrum and ballistic transport in bent nanotubes

A. V. Chaplik^ab

^a University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-80 Japan
^b Institute of Semiconductor Physics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: It is shown that bending of a nanotube leads to splitting the electron energy levels due to breaking the azimuthal symmetry. The bent section of the nanotube acts as a scatterer for ballistic carriers resulting in qualitative changes in the dependence of conductance on the Fermi energy.

PACS: 61.46.+w

Received: 17.06.2004

Language: English