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Probe Type II Band Alignment in One-Dimensional Van Der Waals Heterostructures Using First-Principles Calculations
Published on: October 12, 2019
Propagative Landau states and Fermi level pinning in carbon nanotubes
Sébastien Nanot1, Rémi Avriller, Walter Escoffier
1Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, INSA UPS CNRS, UPR 3228, Université de Toulouse, 143 avenue de rangueil, 31400 Toulouse, France.
Abstract:
We present strong evidence of Landau states formation in multiwalled carbon nanotubes with metallic or semiconducting outer shells, under magnetic fields as high as 60 T. Magnetoconductance data are found to converge to a gate-independent value for semiconducting shells, whereas for metallic shells, the Landau states introduce a strong reintroduction of backscattering and Fermi level pinning close to the charge neutrality point. Electronic band structure and transport calculations provide a consistent interpretation of the experimental data.
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