Novel conductance step in carbon nanotube with wing-like zigzag graphene nanoribbons
Liu Hong
       

(color online) Structures of ZW-CNTs based on the tubes (6, 6) and (20, 20), i.e., (a) ZW1-(6, 6), (b) ZW2-(6, 6), (c) ZW4-(6, 6), and (d) ZW8-(20, 20). The integer N refers to the number of carbon atoms in the primitive cell. For comparison, the red balls show these atoms bonding to four nearest-neighbor atoms by the sp3 hybrid orbits.