An RF circuit model for carbon nanotubes

Author

Burke, P.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Volume

2

Issue

1

fYear

2003

fDate

3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

We develop an RF circuit model for single walled carbon nanotubes for both dc and capacitively contacted geometries. By modeling the nanotube as a nanotransmission line with distributed kinetic and magnetic inductance as well as distributed quantum and electrostatic capacitance, we calculate the complex, frequency dependent impedance for a variety of measurement geometries. Exciting voltage waves on the nanotransmission line is equivalent to directly exciting the yet-to-be observed one dimensional plasmons, the low energy excitation of a Luttinger liquid.

Keywords

Luttinger liquid; carbon nanotubes; plasmons; transmission line theory; C; DC geometry; Luttinger liquid; RF circuit model; capacitively contacted geometry; complex impedance; distributed system; electrostatic capacitance; kinetic inductance; magnetic inductance; nanotransmission line; one-dimensional plasmon; quantum capacitance; single walled carbon nanotube; voltage wave excitation; Carbon nanotubes; Circuits; Electrostatics; Frequency dependence; Geometry; Impedance; Kinetic theory; Quantum capacitance; Radio frequency; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-125X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNANO.2003.808503

Filename

1186778