First-principles study on the electronic and transport properties of periodically nitrogen-doped graphene and carbon nanotube superlattices
Fuming Xu1,Zhizhou Yu2,3(),Zhirui Gong1,Hao Jin1
1. College of Physics and Energy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China 2. School of Physics and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China 3. Department of Physics and the Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Prompted by recent reports on graphene superlattices with intrinsic inter-valley interactions, we perform first-principles calculations to investigate the electronic properties of periodically nitrogendoped graphene and carbon nanotube nanostructures. In these structures, nitrogen atoms substitute one-sixth of the carbon atoms in the pristine hexagonal lattices with exact periodicity to form perfect superlattices of graphene and carbon nanotubes. Multiple nanostructures of graphene ribbons and carbon nanotubes are explored, and all configurations show nonmagnetic and metallic behaviors. The transport properties of graphene and carbon nanotube superlattices are calculated utilizing the non-equilibrium Green’s function formalism combined with density functional theory. The transmission spectrum through the pristine and armchair carbon nanotube heterostructure shows quantized behavior under certain circumstances.
. [J]. Frontiers of Physics, 2017, 12(4): 127306.
Fuming Xu,Zhizhou Yu,Zhirui Gong,Hao Jin. First-principles study on the electronic and transport properties of periodically nitrogen-doped graphene and carbon nanotube superlattices. Front. Phys. , 2017, 12(4): 127306.
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