Journal article
Electronic transport properties of fullerene functionalized carbon nanotubes: Ab initio and tight-binding calculations
Fullerene functionalized carbon nanotubes-NanoBuds-form a novel class of hybrid carbon materials, which possesses many advantageous properties as compared to the pristine components. Here, we report a theoretical study of the electronic transport properties of these compounds. We use both ab initio techniques and tight-binding calculations to illustrate these materials' transmission properties and give physical arguments to interpret the numerical results.
Specifically, above the Fermi energy we find a strong reduction in electron transmission due to localized states in certain regions of the structure while below the Fermi energy all considered structures exhibit a high-transmission energy band with a geometry-dependent width.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2009 |
ISSN: | 10953795 , 1550235x , 01631829 and 10980121 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.035427 |
ORCIDs: | Brandbyge, Mads and Jauho, Antti-Pekka |