Incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes as one-dimensional moiré crystals
arXiv:1410.7544 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.035405
Abstract
Cylindrical multishell structure is one of the prevalent atomic arrangements in nanowires. Being multishell, the well-defined atomic periodicity is hardly realized in it because the periodic units of individual shells therein generally do not match except for very few cases, posing a challenge to understand its physical properties. Here we show that moiré patterns generated by superimposing atomic lattices of individual shells are decisive in determining its electronic structures. Double- walled carbon nanotubes, as an example, are shown to have spectacular variations in their electronic properties from metallic to semiconducting and further to insulating states depending on their moiré patterns, even when they are composed of only semiconducting nanotubes with almost similar energy gaps and diameters. Thus, aperiodic multishell nanowires can be classified into new one-dimensional moiré crystals with distinct electronic structures.
arXiv comment14 pages, 11 figures
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