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Electrical Properties of Sculpturenes

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-09-04 v1

Abstract

We investigate the electronic properties of sculpturenes, formed by sculpting selected shapes from bilayer graphene, boron-nitride or graphene-boron-nitride hetero-bilayers and allowing the shapes to spontaneously reconstruct. The simplest sculpturenes are periodic nanotubes, containing lines of non-hexagonal rings. More complex sculpturenes formed from shapes with non-trivial topologies, connectivities and materials combinations may also be constructed. Results are presented for the reconstructed geometries, electronic densities of states and current-voltage relations of these new structures.

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@article{arxiv.1509.00876,
  title  = {Electrical Properties of Sculpturenes},
  author = {L. Algharagholy and T. Pope and S. W. D. Bailey. and C. J. Lambert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00876},
  year   = {2015}
}