Metal-semiconductor transition in armchair carbon nanotubes by symmetry breaking

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4178-4180

  Li, Yan ^a   Rotkin, Slava V ^a,b   Ravaioli, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR QUANTUM NUMBER; ARMCHAIR NANOTUBES; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSITION; SYMMETRY BREAKING;

BAND STRUCTURE; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR METAL BOUNDARIES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 10044225832     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1811792     Document Type: Article

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