Unusual Phenomena in Quasi-1D Carbon Nanotubes
Date : October 24, 2001 16:00 ~
Speaker : Prof. David Tomanek(Michigan State Univ)
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Location : 56동106호
Unusual Phenomena in Quasi-1D Carbon Nanotubes
David Tomanek
Department of Physics
Michigan State University
Owing to their extreme aspect ratio and atomic-scale perfection, nanometer-wide yet up to millimeter-long carbon nanotubes display a wide spectrum of unusual phenomena. The weak interaction between bundled or multi-walled nanotubes leads to an anisotropic interaction between these cylindrical systems an a unique orientational melting behavior [1]. In absence of incoherent scattering, nanotubes exhibit ballistic transport with a fractional quantum conductance behavior [2]. An unusually large phonon mean free path lies at the origin of an unusually large thermal conductivity of nanotubes [3]. Possible applications of nanotubes include an "atomic pump", driven by single-photon or coherent two-photon excitations, [4,5], and a "bucky-shuttle" memory based on nanocapsules [6] or fullerene peapods.
[1] Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tomanek, Orientational melting in carbon nanotube ropes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1483 (2000).
[2] Stefano Sanvito, Young-Kyun Kwon, David Tomanek, and Colin J. Lambert, Fractional quantum conductance in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1974 (2000).
[3] Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tomanek
David Tomanek
Department of Physics
Michigan State University
Owing to their extreme aspect ratio and atomic-scale perfection, nanometer-wide yet up to millimeter-long carbon nanotubes display a wide spectrum of unusual phenomena. The weak interaction between bundled or multi-walled nanotubes leads to an anisotropic interaction between these cylindrical systems an a unique orientational melting behavior [1]. In absence of incoherent scattering, nanotubes exhibit ballistic transport with a fractional quantum conductance behavior [2]. An unusually large phonon mean free path lies at the origin of an unusually large thermal conductivity of nanotubes [3]. Possible applications of nanotubes include an "atomic pump", driven by single-photon or coherent two-photon excitations, [4,5], and a "bucky-shuttle" memory based on nanocapsules [6] or fullerene peapods.
[1] Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tomanek, Orientational melting in carbon nanotube ropes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1483 (2000).
[2] Stefano Sanvito, Young-Kyun Kwon, David Tomanek, and Colin J. Lambert, Fractional quantum conductance in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1974 (2000).
[3] Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tomanek