Authors: Pradhan, Prachi; Ray, Asok K.

Source: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 3, Number 1, February 2006 , pp. 128-133(6)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

First principles calculations based on hybrid density functional theory have been used to study the electronic and geometric properties of armchair silicon and germanium nanotubes ranging from A(3, 3) through A(9, 9). The approach used is the finite cluster approach with hydrogen termination to simulate the effects of longer tubes. A detailed comparison of the structures and stabilities of Si and Ge nanotubes has been performed and the dependence of the HOMO-LUMO or "band" gaps on the tube diameters has been investigated. Silicon nanotubes appear to be "less-puckered" and more stable compared to germanium nanotubes. The largest silicon nanotube studied has a cohesive energy of 3.138 eV/atom to be compared with the cohesive energy of 2.770 eV/atom for the corresponding germanium nanotube. Contrary to some published results in the literature, silicon nanotubes do not appear to be metallic for the cases studied in the armchair configuration.

Keywords: NANOTUBES; SILICON; GERMANIUM; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; AB INITIO

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2006.011

Publication date: 2006-02-01

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