Pop, E., Mann, D., Cao, J., Wang, Q., Goodson, K.E., and Dai, H., 2005, “Negative Differential Conductance and Hot Phonons in Suspended Nanotube Molecular Wires,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, pp. 155505-155509.
Abstract
PDFFreely suspended metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit reduced current carrying ability compared to those lying on substrates, and striking negative differential conductance at low electric fields. Theoretical analysis reveals significant self-heating effects including electron scattering by hot nonequilibrium optical phonons. Electron transport characteristics under strong self-heating are exploited for the first time to probe the thermal conductivity of individual SWNTs (~3600 Wm-1 K-1 at T=300 K) up to ~700 K, and reveal a 1/T dependence expected for umklapp phonon scattering at high temperatures.
