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Raad Chegel

Raad Chegel

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: science
Address: Malayer University
Phone: 09188899031

Research

Title
Bandstructure modulation for Si-h and Si-g nanotubes in a transverse electric field: Tight binding approach
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
A. Nanostructures; B. Semiconductors; C. Electrical properties; D. Electronic structure
Year
2013
Journal SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES
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Researchers Raad Chegel

Abstract

We have investigated the electronic properties of SiNTs, under the external electric field, using Tight Binding (TB) approximation. It was found that the energy levels, energy gaps, and density of states (DOS) strongly depend on the electric field strength. The large electric strength leads to coupling the neighbor subbands and induce destruction of subband degeneracy, increase of low-energy states, and strong modulation of energy gap which these effects reflect in the DOS spectrum. It has been shown that, the band gap reduction of Si g-NTs is linearly proportional to the electric field strength. The band gap variation for Si h-NTs increases first and later decreases (Metallic) or first remains constant and then decreases (semiconductor). Also we show that the larger diameter tubes are more sensitive to the field strength than smaller ones. The semiconducting metallic transition or vice versa can be achieved through an increasing of applied fields. Number and position of peaks in DOS spectrum are dependent on electric field strength.