Electronic states in a finite carbon nanotube: A one-dimensional quantum box

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3520-3523

  Rubio, Angel ^a   Sánchez Portal, Daniel ^b   Artacho, Emilio ^b   Ordejón, Pablo ^c   Soler, José M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; GOLD; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

FINITE ARMCHAIR CARBON NANOTUBES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS (HOMO); LOCAL DENSITY OF STATES (LDOS); LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS (LOCO); ONE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM BOX; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0344641937     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3520     Document Type: Article

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