Keywords

FIREBALL, nitrogen, single-walled carbon nanotubes, electronic properties

Abstract

We present calculations for possible configurations of nitrogen-containing single-walled carbon nanotubes and their electronic properties obtained with the ab initio tight-binding FIREBALL method. It is found that nitrogen atoms can be energetically incorporated into the carbon network in three forms: Substitution, substitution with formation of a vacancy structure, and chemical adsorption. The different forms exhibit different local densities of states near the Fermi levels, which might suggest a potential method to control the electronic properties of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes

Original Publication Citation

Zhao, Mingwen, Yueyuan Xia, James P. Lewis, and Ruiqin Zhang."First-principles calculations for nitrogen-containing single-walled carbon nanotubes." Journal of Applied Physics 94 (23): 2398-242.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2003-08-15

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/1291

Publisher

AIP

Language

English

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

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