Encapsulated nanowires : boosting electronic transport in carbon nanotubes

@article{Vasylenko2016EncapsulatedN,
  title={Encapsulated nanowires : boosting electronic transport in carbon nanotubes},
  author={Andrij Vasylenko and Jamie M. Wynn and Paulo V C Medeiros and Andrew J. Morris and Jeremy Sloan and David Quigley},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2016},
  volume={95},
  pages={121408}
}
The electrical conductivity of metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) quickly saturates with respect to bias voltage due to scattering from a large population of optical phonons. The decay of these dominant scatterers in pristine CNTs is too slow to offset an increased generation rate at high voltage bias. We demonstrate from first principles that encapsulation of one-dimensional atomic chains within a single-walled CNT can enhance the decay of “hot” phonons by providing additional channels for… 
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