Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectricity in boron nitride nanotubes
Materials Science
2009-12-16 v1
Abstract
Ab initio calculations of the spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric properties of boron nitride nanotubes show that they are excellent piezoelectric systems with response values larger than those of piezoelectric polymers. The intrinsic chiral symmetry of the nanotubes induces an exact cancellation of the total spontaneous polarization in ideal, isolated nanotubes of arbitrary indices. Breaking of this symmetry by inter-tube interaction or elastic deformations induces spontaneous polarization comparable to those of wurtzite semiconductors.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0305329,
title = {Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectricity in boron nitride nanotubes},
author = {S. M. Nakhmanson and A. Calzolari and V. Meunier and J. Bernholc and M. Buongiorno-Nardelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0305329},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages in PRB double column format, 3 figures