Tight-Binding Computation of the STM Image of Carbon Nanotubes
- 21 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (25), 5588-5591
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.5588
Abstract
STM imaging of single-wall carbon nanotubes has recently been achieved with atomic resolution, revealing the chirality of the carbon network. In this work, a theoretical modeling of scanning tunneling microscopy of the nanotubes is presented, based on a tight-binding -electron Hamiltonian. This theory is simple enough to be used routinely for the computation of STM images and current-voltage characteristics, making it possible to investigate specific effects of the network curvature and topology such as a pentagon-heptagon pair defect.
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