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Designing Real Nanotube-Based Gas Sensors

2008; American Physical Society; Volume: 100; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.100.176803

1092-0145

Alexandre Reily Rocha, Mariana Rossi, A. Fazzio, Antônio J. R. da Silva,

Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

Using a combination of density functional theory and recursive Green`s functions techniques, we present a full description of a large scale sensor, accounting for disorder and different coverages. Here, we use this method to demonstrate the functionality of nitrogen-rich carbon nanotubes as ammonia sensors as an example. We show how the molecules one wishes to detect bind to the most relevant defects on the nanotube, describe how these interactions lead to changes in the electronic transport properties of each isolated defect, and demonstrate that there are significative resistance changes even in the presence of disorder, elucidating how a realistic nanosensor works.