One-dimensional method of investigating the localized states in armchair graphene-like nanoribbons with defects

Xie Yang, Hu Zhi-Jian, Ding Wen-Hao, Lü Xiao-Long, Xie Hang^†

(color online) Band structures of armchair BN nanoribbons from the 1D-supercell method for the cases of (a) N = 6, 2M = 2; (b) N = 8, 2M = 2; (c) N = 23, 2M = 16, the red lines are for p = 8. In this figure, a is the period of the supercell.