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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
Electron transport and hot phonons in carbon nanotubes
Michele Lazzeri1, S Piscanec, Francesco Mauri
1Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the key role of phonon occupation in limiting the high-field ballistic transport in metallic carbon nanotubes. In particular, we provide a simple analytic formula for the electron transport scattering length, which we validate by accurate first principles calculations on (6, 6) and (11, 11) nanotubes. The comparison of our results with the scattering lengths fitted from experimental I-V curves indicates the presence of a nonequilibrium optical phonon heating induced by electron transport. We predict an effective temperature for optical phonons of thousands Kelvin.
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