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Article: Coulomb excitations in AA- and AB-stacked bilayer graphites
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ABSTRACT: The π-electronic excitations are studied for the AA- and AB-stacked bilayer graphites within the linear self-consistent-field approach. They are strongly affected by the stacking sequence, the interlayer atomic interactions, the interlayer Coulomb interactions, and the magnitude of the transferred momentum. However, they hardly depend on the direction of the transferred momentum and the temperature. There are three low-frequency plasmon modes in the AA-stacked system but not the AB-stacked system. The AA- and AB-stacked plasmons exhibit the similar π plasmons. The first low-frequency plasmon behaves as an acoustic plasmon, and the others belong to optical plasmons. The bilayer graphites quite differ from the monolayer graphite and the AB-stacked bulk graphite, such as the low-frequency plasmons and the small-momentum π plasmons.Phys. Rev. B. 08/2006; 74(8). -
Article: Low-energy electronic properties of the AB-stacked few-layer graphites.
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ABSTRACT: In the presence of a perpendicular electric field, the low-energy electronic properties of the AB-stacked N-layer graphites with layer number N = 2, 3, and 4, respectively, are examined through the tight-binding model. The interlayer interactions, the number of layers, and the field strength are closely related to them. The interlayer interactions can significantly change the energy dispersions and produce new band-edge states. Bi-layer and four-layer graphites are two-dimensional semimetals due to a tiny overlap between the valence and conduction bands, while tri-layer graphite is a narrow-gap semiconductor. The electric field affects the low-energy electronic properties: the production of oscillating bands, the cause of subband (anti)crossing, the change in subband spacing, and the increase in band-edge states. Most importantly, the aforementioned effects are revealed completely in the density of states, e.g. the generation of special structures, the shift in peak position, the change in peak height, and the alteration of the band gap.Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 07/2006; 18(26):5849-59. · 2.55 Impact Factor -
Article: Molecular dynamics study of multi-walled carbon nanotubes under uniaxial loading
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ABSTRACT: The mechanical behavior of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), being fixed at both ends under uniaxial tensile loading, is investigated via the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with the Tersoff interatomic potential. It is found that Young's modulus of the MWNTs is in the range between 0.85 and 1.16 TPa via the curvature method based on strain energy density calculations. Anharmonicity in the energy curves is observed, and it may be responsible for the time-dependent properties of the nanotubes. Moreover, the number of atomic layers that is fixed at the boundaries of the MWNTs will affect the critical strain for jumps in strain energy density vs. strain curves. In addition, the boundary conditions may affect “yielding” strength in tension. The van der Waals interaction of the double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) is studied to quantify its effects in terms of the chosen potential.Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 42(4):775-778. · 1.53 Impact Factor
