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Volume 103, Number 4, August 2013
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Article Number | 47008 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/47008 | |
Published online | 16 September 2013 |
A valley-filtering switch based on the Stone-Wales defect array in carbon nanotube
National Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Department of Physics, Jilin University Changchun 130012, China
(a) zys@jlu.edu.cn
Received: 25 May 2013
Accepted: 20 August 2013
We theoretically demonstrate that valley-filtering switch can be realized in a carbon nanotube (CNT) embedded with a series of Stone-Wales defects. It is due to the fact that such a CNT shows two peculiar subbands which span two Dirac valleys without nontrivial dispersion, just like the flat-bottomed subbands of a zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbon. Considering that similar defects have been experimentally patterned in a CNT in a controllable way, this kind of CNT is a promising device prototype for valleytronic applications.
PACS: 73.63.-b – Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures / 72.10.Fk – Scattering by point defects, dislocations, surfaces, and other imperfections (including Kondo effect) / 84.30.Vn – Filters
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