Monday, July 30, 2012

1207.6478 (Mikhail V. Katkov et al.)

Theoretical model of structure-dependent conductance crossover in
disordered carbon
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Mikhail V. Katkov, Somnath Bhattacharyya
We analyze the effects of sp^2/sp^3 bond-aspect ratio on the transport properties of amorphous carbon quasi-1D structures where structural disorder varies in a very non-linear manner with the effective bandgap. Using a tight-binding approach the calculated electron transmission showed a high probability over a wide region around the Fermi-level for sp^2-rich carbon and also distinct peaks close to the band edges for sp^3-rich carbon structures. This model shows a sharp rise of the structure resistance with the increase of sp^3C % followed by saturation in the wide bandgap regime for carbon superlattice-like structures and suggests the tuneable characteristic time of carbon-based devices.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6478

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