Thermal probing of energy dissipation in current-carrying carbon nanotubes

nanotubes Li Shi, Jianhua Zhou, Philip Kim, Adrian Bachtold, Arun Majumdar, and Paul L. McEuen Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA Centre d’Investigacions en Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Institut Català de Nanotecnologia), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 USA