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Field-effect characteristics and screening in double-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
1Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
Field-effect transistors (FETs) have been fabricated using double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs), and electrical transport measurements have been carried out on 125 DWCNT FETs. Among these devices, 52 were found to show basically semiconducting field-effect characteristics, 44 show metallic characteristics, and 29 show neither pure semiconducting nor metallic characteristics. These 3 distinct types of field-effect characteristics were identified as resulting from the semiconducting (S)-S, metallic (M)-M or M-S, and S-M combinations of the two shells of the DWCNT. While the S-S and M-M or M-S DWCNT devices exhibit similar field-effect characteristics to those by single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) devices, the S-M device responds uniquely to the external gate voltage. In particular, it was found that free charges in the inner metallic shell may screen the outer semiconducting shell from the gate effect and that the screening is directly related to the intershell interaction, which increases with increasing temperature and tube diameter. The screening is disadvantageous to the performance of DWCNT FETs, and a similar effect is expected to occur in MWCNTs.
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