中国物理B ›› 2010, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (11): 117201-117202.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/11/117201

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Disorder-induced enhancement of conductance in doped nanowires

徐宁, 王保林, 孙厚谦, 孔凡杰   

  1. Department of Physics, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, China
  • 收稿日期:2010-05-01 修回日期:2010-06-24 出版日期:2010-11-15 发布日期:2010-11-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10874052), Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (Grant No. 200726).

Disorder-induced enhancement of conductance in doped nanowires

Xu Ning(徐宁),Wang Bao-Lin(王保林), Sun Hou-Qian(孙厚谦), and Kong Fan-Jie(孔凡杰)   

  1. Department of Physics, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, China
  • Received:2010-05-01 Revised:2010-06-24 Online:2010-11-15 Published:2010-11-15
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10874052), Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (Grant No. 200726).

摘要: A new mechanism is proposed to explain the enhancement of conductance in doped nanowires. It is shown that the anomalous enhancement of conductance is due to surface doping. The conductance in doped nanowires increases with dopant concentration, which is qualitatively consistent with the existing experimental results. In addition, the I-V curves are linear and thus suggest that the metal electrodes make ohmic contacts to the shell-doped nanowires. The electric current increases with wire diameter (D) and decreases exponentially with wire length (L). Therefore, the doped nanowires have potential application in nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Abstract: A new mechanism is proposed to explain the enhancement of conductance in doped nanowires. It is shown that the anomalous enhancement of conductance is due to surface doping. The conductance in doped nanowires increases with dopant concentration, which is qualitatively consistent with the existing experimental results. In addition, the I-V curves are linear and thus suggest that the metal electrodes make ohmic contacts to the shell-doped nanowires. The electric current increases with wire diameter (D) and decreases exponentially with wire length (L). Therefore, the doped nanowires have potential application in nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Key words: conductance, nanowires

中图分类号:  (Other materials)

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73.40.Ns (Metal-nonmetal contacts) 73.63.-b (Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures)