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Local Electronic Structure in Ordered Aggregates of Carbon Nanotubes: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study

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The recent application of tunneling probes in electronic structure studies of carbon nanotubes has proven both powerful and challenging. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), local electronic properties in ordered aggregates of carbon nanotubes (multiwalled nanotubes and ropes of single walled nanotubes) have been probed. In this report, we present evidence for interlayer (concentric tube) interactions in multiwalled tubes and tube-tube interactions in singlewalled nanotube ropes. The spatially resolved, local electronic structure, as determined by the local density of electronic states, is shown to clearly reflect tube-tube interactions in both of these aggregate forms.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, 29634, South Carolina, USA

    D. L. Carroll

  2. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, 12180–3590, New York, USA

    P. M. Ajayan

  3. Department of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    S. Curran

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Carroll, D.L., Ajayan, P.M. & Curran, S. Local Electronic Structure in Ordered Aggregates of Carbon Nanotubes: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study. Journal of Materials Research 13, 2389–2395 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1998.0332

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