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Bushmaker AW, Oklejas V, Walker D, et al. Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes. Nat Commun. 2016;7:10475doi: 10.1038/ncomms10475.
Bushmaker, A. W., Oklejas, V., Walker, D., Hopkins, A. R., Chen, J., & Cronin, S. B. (2016). Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes. Nature communications, 710475. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10475
Bushmaker, Adam W, et al. "Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes." Nature communications vol. 7 (2016): 10475. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10475
Bushmaker AW, Oklejas V, Walker D, Hopkins AR, Chen J, Cronin SB. Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes. Nat Commun. 2016 Jan 25;7:10475. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10475. PMID: 26805462; PMCID: PMC4737755.
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Nat Commun. 2016 Jan 25;7:10475. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10475.

Single-ion adsorption and switching in carbon nanotubes.

Nature communications

Adam W Bushmaker, Vanessa Oklejas, Don Walker, Alan R Hopkins, Jihan Chen, Stephen B Cronin

Affiliations

  1. Physical Sciences Laboratories, The Aerospace Corporation, 355 S. Douglas Street, El Segundo, California 90245, USA.
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Southern California, 3601 Watt Way, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.

PMID: 26805462 PMCID: PMC4737755 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10475

Abstract

Single-ion detection has, for many years, been the domain of large devices such as the Geiger counter, and studies on interactions of ionized gasses with materials have been limited to large systems. To date, there have been no reports on single gaseous ion interaction with microelectronic devices, and single neutral atom detection techniques have shown only small, barely detectable responses. Here we report the observation of single gaseous ion adsorption on individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which, because of the severely restricted one-dimensional current path, experience discrete, quantized resistance increases of over two orders of magnitude. Only positive ions cause changes, by the mechanism of ion potential-induced carrier depletion, which is supported by density functional and Landauer transport theory. Our observations reveal a new single-ion/CNT heterostructure with novel electronic properties, and demonstrate that as electronics are ultimately scaled towards the one-dimensional limit, atomic-scale effects become increasingly important.

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