TY - JOUR
T1 - Peierls-type metal-insulator transition in carbon nanostructures
AU - Zhang, Bing
AU - Zhang, Ting
AU - Pan, Jie
AU - Chow, Tsz Pong
AU - Aboalsaud, Ammar M.
AU - Lai, Zhiping
AU - Sheng, Ping
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-23
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KAUST18SC01, URF/1/3435
Acknowledgements: P. S. wishes to acknowledge support by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Grant 16308216, and by collaborative grant from KAUST, Saudi Arabia KAUST18SC01. Z. Lai wishes to acknowledge the KAUST competitive research grant URF/1/3435–01.
PY - 2020/10/10
Y1 - 2020/10/10
N2 - We report the observation of Peierls-type metal-insulator transition in carbon nanostructures formed by chemical vapor deposition inside the pore network of the ZSM-5 zeolite. The Raman spectrum of this nanocarbon@ZSM-5 indicates a clear signature of the radial breathing mode (RBM) for (3,0) carbon nanotubes that can constitute the carbon network segments. Electrical transport measurements on multiple few-micron-sized nanocarbon@ZSM-5 crystals showed metallic temperature dependence of resistance down to 30 K, at which point the resistance exhibited a sharp upturn that is accompanied by the opening of a quasigap at the Fermi level as indicated by the differential resistance measurements. Further Hall measurements have yielded both the sign of the charge carrier and its density. The latter demonstrated excellent consistency with the quasigap data. We employed first-principles calculations to verify that there can indeed be softening of the phonon modes in the (3,0) carbon nanotubes.
AB - We report the observation of Peierls-type metal-insulator transition in carbon nanostructures formed by chemical vapor deposition inside the pore network of the ZSM-5 zeolite. The Raman spectrum of this nanocarbon@ZSM-5 indicates a clear signature of the radial breathing mode (RBM) for (3,0) carbon nanotubes that can constitute the carbon network segments. Electrical transport measurements on multiple few-micron-sized nanocarbon@ZSM-5 crystals showed metallic temperature dependence of resistance down to 30 K, at which point the resistance exhibited a sharp upturn that is accompanied by the opening of a quasigap at the Fermi level as indicated by the differential resistance measurements. Further Hall measurements have yielded both the sign of the charge carrier and its density. The latter demonstrated excellent consistency with the quasigap data. We employed first-principles calculations to verify that there can indeed be softening of the phonon modes in the (3,0) carbon nanotubes.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665112
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0008622320310010
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092538243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.10.037
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.10.037
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 172
SP - 106
EP - 111
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -