Author(s)

Anthony Twum^1*, Raymond Edziah¹, Samuel Yeboah Mensah¹, Kwadwo Dompreh¹, Patrick Mensah-Amoah¹, Augustine Arthur¹, Natalia G. Mensah², Kofi Adu³, George Nkrumah-Buandoh⁴

¹Department of Physics, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
²Department of Mathematics, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
³Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College, Altoona, USA.
⁴Department of Physics, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

We have studied the axial resistivity of chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in the presence of a combined direct current and high frequency alternating fields. We employed semiclassical Boltzmann equations approach and compared our results with a similar study that examined the circumferential resistivity of these unique materials. Our work shows that these materials display similar resistivity for both axial and circumferential directions and this largely depends on temperature, intensities of the applied fields and material parameters such as chiral angle. Based on these low-temperature bidirectional conductivity responses, we propose chiral SWCNTs for design of efficient optoelectronic devices.

Chiral Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Boltzmann Transport Equation, Axial Resistivity, Chiral Angle

Twum, A. , Edziah, R. , Mensah, S. , Dompreh, K. , Mensah-Amoah, P. , Arthur, A. , Mensah, N. , Adu, K. and Nkrumah-Buandoh, G. (2021) Temperature Dependent Resistivity of Chiral Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Presence of Coherent Light Source. World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics, 11, 77-86. doi: 10.4236/wjcmp.2021.114006.