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Bulk electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes immobilized by dielectrophoresis: Evidence of metallic or semiconductor behavior

N. Mureau
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P.C.P. Watts
  • Fonction : Auteur
S.R.P. Silva
  • Fonction : Auteur

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We report the electrical characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) trapped between two electrodes by dielectrophoresis (DEP). At high frequency, SWCNTs collected by DEP are expected to be of metallic type. Indeed current-voltage (I-V) measurements for devices made at 10 MHz show high values of conductivity and exhibit metallic behavior with linear and symmetric electrical features attributed to ohmic conduction. At low frequency, SWCNTs attracted by DEP are expected to be of semiconducting nature. Devices made at 10 kHz behave as semiconductors and demonstrate nonlinear and rectifying electrical characteristics with conductivities many orders of magnitude below the sample resulting from high-frequency immobilization of SWCNTs. Conducting atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) and current density calculation results are presented to reinforce results obtained by I-V measurements which clearly show type separation of SWCNTs after DEP experiments.

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hal-01564404 , version 1 (18-07-2017)

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N. Mureau, P.C.P. Watts, Yann Tison, S.R.P. Silva. Bulk electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes immobilized by dielectrophoresis: Evidence of metallic or semiconductor behavior. Electrophoresis, 2008, 29 (11), pp.2266-2271. ⟨10.1002/elps.200700724⟩. ⟨hal-01564404⟩
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