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A detailed investigation of the Raman response of the inner tube radial breathing modes (RBMs) in double-wall carbon nanotubes is reported. It revealed that the number of observed RBMs is two to three times larger than the number of…

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Layer-dependent electronic and structural properties of emerging graphitic carbon boron compound C3B are investigated using both density functional theory and the GW approximation. We discover that, in contrast to a moderate quasiparticle…

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We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

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Linear carbon chains (LCCs) are the ultimate 1D molecular system and they show unique mechanical, optical and electronic properties that can be tuned by altering the number of carbon atoms, strain, encapsulation, and other external…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-11 Graziâni Candiotto , Fernanda R. Silva , Deyse G. Costa , Rodrigo B. Capaz

Using the GW approximation, we study the electronic structure of the recently synthesized hydrogenated graphene, named graphane. For both conformations, the minimum band gap is found to be direct at the $\Gamma$ point, and it has a value of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Lebegue , M. Klintenberg , O. Eriksson , M. I. Katsnelson

Band gap control by an external field is useful in various optical, infrared and THz applications. However, widely tunable band gaps are still not practical due to variety of reasons. Using the orthogonal tight-binding method for…

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We report diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations of the quasiparticle and excitonic gaps of hydrogen-terminated oligoynes and polyyne. The electronic gaps are found to be very sensitive to the atomic structure in these systems. We…

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Single walled carbon nanotubes as emerging quantum-light sources may fill a technological gap in silicon photonics due to their potential use as near infrared, electrically driven, classical or non-classical emitters. Unlike in…

We propose a scheme for realizing the continuously tunable spectrum based on monatomic carbon chains. By hybrid density functional calculations, we first show that the direct band gap of monatomic carbon chains change continuously from 1.58…

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An elongation method based on ab initio quantum chemistry approaches is presented. It allows to study electronic structures and coherent electron transportation properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) up to 22nm in length…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun Jiang , Wei Lu , Yi Luo

We study one dimensional (1D) carbon ribbons with the armchair edges and the zigzag carbon nanotubes and their counterparts with finite length (0D) in the framework of the H\"{u}ckel model. We prove that a 1D carbon ribbon is metallic if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Nikolaev , A. V. Bibikov , A. V. Avdeenkov , I. V. Bodrenko , E. V. Tkalya

We theoretically investigate the influence of defect-induced long-range deformations in carbon nanotubes on their electronic transport properties. To this end we perform numerical ab-initio calculations using a density-functional-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Christian Wagner , Alexander Croy , Jörg Schuster

In this comprehensive study, we undertake a thorough theoretical examination of the electronic subband structures within cove-edged zigzag graphene nanoribbons (CZGNRs) using the tight-binding model. These unique nanostructures arise from…

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By a tight-binding model, the interaction between linear atomic C chains (LACCs) and short laser pulses was investigated. LACCs were proposed to be used as a medium of laser whose wavelength can be continuously tuned in a range of 321~785…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Zheng-Zhe Lin

The success of all-graphene electronics is severely hindered by the challenging realization and subsequent integration of semiconducting channels and metallic contacts. Here, we comprehensively investigate the electronic transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Oleg V. Yazyev , Michele Pizzochero

Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) have displayed a wealth of quantum transport phenomena thus far. Defect free, unperturbed SWNTs with wellbehaved or tunable metal contacts are important to probing the intrinsic electrical properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jien Cao , Qian Wang , Hongjie Dai

High pressure Raman experiments were performed on bundled double wall carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs). We observe peculiar regularity in the strength of the inner-outer tube (intratube) interaction, which is attributed to the interplay between…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Arvanitidis , D. Christofilos , K. Papagelis , T. Takenobu , Y. Iwasa , H. Kataura , S. Ves , G. A. Kourouklis

A simple method to calculate the static electric polarization of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) is obtained within the second-order perturbation approximation. The results are in agreement with the previous calculation within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin Zhou , Hu Chen , Ou-Yang Zhong-can

A newly synthesized layered material C2N was investigated based on many- body perturbation theory using GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. The electronic band gap was determined to be ranging from 3.75 to 1.89 eV from monolayer to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 Jiuyu Sun , Ruiqi Zhang , Xingxing Li , Jinlong Yang

The importance of finite-size effects for the electronic structure of long zigzag and armchair carbon nanotubes is studied. We analyze the electronic structure of capped (6,6), (8,0), and (9,0) single walled carbon nanotubes as a function…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oded Hod , Juan E. Peralta , Gustavo E. Scuseria