Broken symmetry, boundary conditions, and band-gap oscillations in finite single-wall carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Liu, Lei ^a   Jayanthi, C S ^a   Wu, S Y ^a   Guo, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ELECTRONICS; NANOPARTICLE; OSCILLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0034906671     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.033414     Document Type: Article

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