Thermal probing of energy dissipation in current-carrying carbon nanotubes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Shi, Li ^a   Zhou, Jianhua ^a   Kim, Philip ^b   Bachtold, Adrian ^c   Majumdar, Arun ^d,e   McEuen, Paul L ^f  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; JOULE HEAT; METAL CONTACTS; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PHONON ENERGIES; SCANNING THERMAL MICROSCOPE; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; SUBSTRATE INTERFACE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; VOLTAGE BIAS;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 66549087961     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3126708     Document Type: Article

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