Length control of individual carbon nanotubes by nanostructuring with a scanning tunneling microscope

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作者
Venema, LC
Wildoer, JWG
Tuinstra, HLJT
Dekker, C
Rinzler, AG
Smalley, RE
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[1] DELFT UNIV TECHNOL,DIMES,NL-2628 CJ DELFT,NETHERLANDS
[2] RICE UNIV,RICE QUANTUM INST,CTR NANOSCALE SCI & TECHNOL,DEPT CHEM & PHYS,HOUSTON,TX 77251
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10.1063/1.120161
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We present a technique to control the length of carbon nanotubes. Individual carbon nanotubes can be locally cut by applying a voltage pulse to the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Topographic imaging and STM spectroscopy are subsequently used to investigate the result. The properties of a nanotube can be strongly changed by reducing the size. Current-voltage curves obtained by STM spectroscopy on a 30 nm short tube created from a longer nanotube show a stepwise increase of the current, which is attributed to quantum size effects. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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