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Using the density functional tight binding method (DFTB) and the GFN1-xTB (Geometries, Frequencies, and Noncovalent interactions Tight Binding) Hamiltonian, we have investigated the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of vacancy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-25 Taoufik Sakhraoui , František Karlický

Armchair phosphorene nanoribbons (APNRs) are known to be semiconductors with an indirect bandgap. Here, we propose to introduce new states in the gap of APNRs by creating a periodic structure of vacancies (antidots). Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Mohsen Rezaei , Hossein Karbaschi , M. Amini , M. Soltani , Gholamreza Rashedi

The study of magnetism in two-dimensional materials has garnered significant interest, driven by fundamental investigations into low-dimensional magnetic phenomena and their potential for applications in spintronic devices. Through…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Yuanji Xu , Xintao Jin , Haoyuan Tang , Fuyang Tian

Ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) materials such as AlN and BN hold great promise for future power electronics due to their exceptional properties. They exhibit large bandgaps, high breakdown fields, high thermal conductivity, and high mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-09 Cody L. Milne , Tathagata Biswas , Arunima K. Singh

A theory of the long wavelength low energy electronic structure of graphite-derived nanotubules is presented. The propagating $\pi$ electrons are described by wrapping a massless two dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian onto a curved surface. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Allotropes of carbon, including one-dimensional carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional graphene sheets, continue to draw attention as promising platforms for probing the physics of electrons in lower dimensions. Recent research has shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Benedetta Flebus , Allan H. MacDonald

Two occupied native defect bands are detected in pure HfO2, with one located in the middle of the band gap and the other slightly above the valence band maximum. The investigation on the electronic structures of hafnium aluminate thin films…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Quan Li , K. M. Koo , W. M. Lau , P. F. Lee , J. Y. Dai , Z. F. Hou , X. G. Gong

We study the electronic structure and transport properties of zigzag and armchair monolayer molybdenum disulfide nanoribbons using an 11-band tight-binding model that accurately reproduces the material's bulk band structure near the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Emilia Ridolfi , Leandro R. F. Lima , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Atomically thin oxides are increasingly recognized as an emerging class of 2D materials, yet their multifunctional properties have been far less investigated compared to other layered materials. Among these, gallium oxide is distinguished…

We study the properties of edge states in in-plane heterostructures made of adjacent zigzag graphene and BN ribbons. While in pure zigzag graphene nanoribbons, gapless edge states are nearly flat and cannot contribute significantly to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Van Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint-Martin , Philippe Dollfus

We simulate the electronic and transport properties of metal/two-dimensional material/metal vertical heterostructures, with a focus on graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and two phases of molybdenum diselenide. Using density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gaëlle Bigeard , Zineb Kerrami , François Triozon , Alessandro Cresti

Point defects in Ga- and Al-doped ZnO thin films are studied by means of first principles electronic structure calculations. Candidate defects are identified to explain recently observed differences in electrical and spectroscopical…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-06 E. Menéndez-Proupin , P. Palacios , P. Wahnón

We used the binding energy-bond-charge model to study the atomic bonding and electrical properties of the two-dimensional graphene/BN van der Waals heterostructure. We manipulated its atomic bonding and electrical properties by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Jiannan Wang , Liangjing Ge , Anlin Deng , Hongrong Qiu , Hanze Li , Yunhu Zhu , Maolin Bo

Unique structural and optical properties of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides enable in principle their efficient coupling to photonic cavities with optical modes volumes close to or below the…

We report experiments on aluminum nanowires in ultra-high vacuum at room temperature that reveal a periodic spectrum of exceptionally stable structures. Two "magic" series of stable structures are observed: At low conductance, the formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-11 A. I. Mares , D. F. Urban , J. Bürki , H. Grabert , C. A. Stafford , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We develop an atomistic, nearest-neighbor sp3s* tight-binding Hamiltonian to investigate the electronic structure of dilute bismide alloys of GaP and GaAs. Using this model we calculate that the incorporation of dilute concentrations of Bi…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Muhammad Usman , Christopher A. Broderick , Andrew Lindsay , Eoin P. O'Reilly

We study the effects of the electrostatic interaction produced by charged fullerenes encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, showing that they are able to modify locally the electronic density of states in the hybrid system. In the cases where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea

We investigate the nitrogen substitutional impurity in semiconducting zigzag and metallic armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes using ab initio density functional theory. At low concentrations (less than 1 atomic %), the defect state in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Gábor Csányi , Michael C. Payne

We report a theoretical study of the structural, electronic and optical properties of hBN-AlN superlattice heterostructures (SL) using a first-principles approach based on standard and hybrid Density Functional Theory. We consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-15 Catalin D. Spataru , Mary H. Crawford , Andrew A. Allerman

We have combined large-scale, $\Gamma$-point electronic-structure calculations with the maximally-localized Wannier functions approach to calculate efficiently the band structure and the quantum conductance of complex systems containing…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Young-Su Lee , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli , Nicola Marzari