A DIFFUSIVE-TRANSPORT-BASED APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE OF AN IMPERFECT MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE

In this paper, we propose a diffusive-transport-based analytical formulation to calculate the linear electrical conductance through a multiwalled carbon nanotube with defects. In fact, on the one hand, by considerations on diffusive transport and, on the other hand, using the Drude model, we find out that the conductance (at Fermi energy) of an imperfect multiwalled carbon nanotube is approximately equal to the fundamental conductance quantum multiplied by the number of layers (or shells) of the tube. Our result agrees with experimental data.