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Electrical Nanoprobing of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes using an Atomic Force Microscope
We use an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) tip to locally probe the electronic
properties of semiconducting carbon nanotube transistors. A gold-coated AFM tip
serves as a voltage or current probe in three-probe measurement setup. Using
the tip as a movable current probe, we investigate the scaling of the device
properties with channel length. Using the tip as a voltage probe, we study the
properties of the contacts. We find that Au makes an excellent contact in the
p-region, with no Schottky barrier. In the n-region large contact resistances
were found which dominate the transport properties.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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