Phys. Rev. B 58, R13314 - R13317 (1998)Effect of intertube coupling on the electronic structure of carbon nanotube ropes |
Young-Kyun Kwon
Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1116
Susumu Saito
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1-12-1 Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan
David Tománek
Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1116
Received 20 April 1998
We calculate the structural and electronic properties of an ordered “bundle” of (10,10) carbon nanotubes. Our results indicate that intertube coupling causes an additional band dispersion of ≲0.2 eV and opens up a pseudogap of the same magnitude at EF. Soft librations at ν≈12 cm-1 are predicted to occur below the orientational melting temperature which marks the onset of tube rotations about their axis. Whereas the density of states near EF increases by 7% due to intertube coupling and by one order of magnitude due to K doping in KC8, these states do not couple to tube librations.
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v58/pR13314
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R13314
PACS: 61.48.+c, 61.50.Ah, 73.61.Wp, 81.10.Aj
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