Electronic transport properties of an (8,0) carbon/boron nitride nanotube heterojunction

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/19/3/037104

Abstract The structure of a heterojunction made up of an (8, 0) carbon nanotube and an (8, 0) boron nitride nanotube is achieved through geometry optimization implemented in the CASTEP package. Based on the optimized geometry, the model of the heterojunction is established. Its transport properties are investigated by combining the nonequilibrium Green's function with density functional theory. Results show that both the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital and the highest occupied molecular orbital mainly locate on the carbon nanotube section. In the current--voltage characteristic of the heterojunction, a rectification feature is revealed.

Keywords: nanotube heterojunction nonequilibrium Green's function transport properties

Received: 15 March 2009
Revised: 30 September 2009
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PACS:	73.63.Fg	(Nanotubes)
	73.22.-f	(Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems)
	73.40.Kp	(III-V semiconductor-to-semiconductor contacts, p-n junctions, and heterojunctions)
	71.15.Mb	(Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)
	73.40.Ei	(Rectification)

Fund: Project supported by the Chinese Defence Advance Research Program of Science and Technology, China (Grant No.~9140A08060407DZ0103).

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Liu Hong-Xia(刘红霞), Zhang He-Ming(张鹤鸣), Song Jiu-Xu(宋久旭), and Zhang Zhi-Yong(张志勇) Electronic transport properties of an (8,0) carbon/boron nitride nanotube heterojunction 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 037104

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