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An electromechanical nanothermometer based on thermal vibrations of carbon nanotube walls

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A new concept is proposed for an electromechanical nanothermometer. The temperature measurements are performed by measuring the conductivity of the nanosystem, which depends substantially on the temperature due to the relative thermal vibrations of nanoobjects forming the nanosystem. The possibility of implementing the proposed concept is demonstrated using double-walled carbon nanotubes as an example. The dependence of the interwall interaction energy on the relative displacement of the nanotube walls is calculated within the density-functional theory. The conductivity of the nanotubes is calculated in the frame-work of the two-band Hubbard model. The calculations of the wall interaction energy and the conductivity are used to estimate the sizes of the nanothermometers based on different double-walled carbon nanotubes. It is shown that the nanothermometer under consideration can be used for measuring the temperature in localized regions with sizes of the order of several hundred nanometers.

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  1. Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    A. M. Popov & Yu. E. Lozovik

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    E. Bichoutskaia

  3. Volgograd State University, Vtoraya Prodol’skaya ul. 30, Volgograd, 400062, Russia

    G. S. Ivanchenko & N. G. Lebedev

  4. Moscow State Pedagogical University, ul. Malaya Pirogovskaya 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    E. K. Krivorotov

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Popov, Yu.E. Lozovik, E. Bichoutskaia, G.S. Ivanchenko, N.G. Lebedev, E.K. Krivorotov, 2009, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2009, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 1230–1237.

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Popov, A.M., Lozovik, Y.E., Bichoutskaia, E. et al. An electromechanical nanothermometer based on thermal vibrations of carbon nanotube walls. Phys. Solid State 51, 1306–1314 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783409060353

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