An Alternative Method for Determining Carbon Nanotube Band Energy |
| A. Bahari
Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Science, University of Mazandaran, P.O. Box 47416, 467 Babolsar, Iran |
| Received: June 11, 2008; Revised version: October 5, 2008; |
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| Researchers calculated the electronic band energy of the carbon nanotube with some special form of crystalline potentials which yield to inaccurate equations. We thus modified the orthogonalized-plane-wave and tight binding methods. These methods are employed to introduce a matrix of carbon nanotube band energy. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.115.622 PACS numbers: 04.62.+v, 98.80.Cq, 12.10.Dm |