title: Electromigration forces on ions in carbon nanotubes.
abstract: We calculate the electromigration forces on ions such as adsorbed alkali metal atoms in a carbon nanotube transistor. The forces are especially large in the turn-on regime of the transistor and much smaller in the off and on states. Electromigration in the channel is driven almost exclusively by the wind force. The sign of the "effective valence" Z* is independent of the actual charge sign but can be reversed with gate voltage, providing a dramatic illustration of the quantum character of the wind force. Our self-consistent nonequilibrium Green's function calculations treat a ballistic device within a tight-binding approximation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany. heinze@physnet.uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heinze
authors.forename: Neng-Ping
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tersoff