Strain energy and electronic structures of silicon carbide nanotubes: Density functional calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Zhao, Mingwen ^a   Xia, Yueyuan ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Zhang, R Q ^b   Lee, S T ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHIRALITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; NANOTUBE; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 16444380291     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.085312     Document Type: Article

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