Localized modes in capped single-walled carbon nanotubes
Author(s) -
A. V. Savin,
Yuri S. Kivshar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.3100199
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , materials science , mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes , selective chemistry of single walled nanotubes , optical properties of carbon nanotubes , surface (topology) , nanotechnology , amplitude , molecular physics , condensed matter physics , carbon fibers , carbon nanobud , chemical physics , nanotube , optics , composite material , physics , geometry , mathematics , composite number
We study numerically small-amplitude oscillations in capped single-walled carbon nanotubes and predict the existence of surface modes localized at capped tips of the nanotubes. These modes are similar to the surface Tamm states found in solids and optics at the edges of truncated lattices.
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