Anomalous electric-field screening at the edge atomic sites of finite-length zigzag carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yamanaka, Ayaka ^a   Okada, Susumu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SITES; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; PARALLEL ELECTRIC FIELDS; TOTAL-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; ZIGZAG CARBON NANOTUBES;

CALCULATIONS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

ATOMS;

EID: 84880864338     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7567/APEX.6.045101     Document Type: Article

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