2008/03/31 by Hassan Raza, Edwin C. Kan
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.77.245434
published as Phys. Rev. B 77, 245434 (2008). · 5 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2008/05/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We report electronic structure and electric field modulation calculations in the width direction for armchair graphene nanoribbons (acGNRs) using a semi-empirical extended Huckel theory. Important band structure parameters are computed, e.g. effectives masses, velocities and bandgaps. For the three types of acGNRs, the pz orbital tight-binding parameters are extracted if feasible. Furthermore, the effect of electric field in the width direction on acGNRs dispersion is explored. It is shown that for the two types of semiconducting acGNRs, an external electric field can reduce the bandgap to a few meV with different quantitative behavior.