Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
The lowest energy configurations of Cn(n =< 55) clusters are obtained using the energy mini- mization technique with the conjugate gradient (CG) method where a modified Brenner potential is invoked to describe the carbon and hydrocarbon interaction. We found that the ground state configuration consists of a single ring for small number of C atoms and multi-ring structures are found with increasing n, which can be in planar, bowl-like or cap-like form. Contrary to previous predictions, the binding energy Eb does not show even-odd oscillations and only small jumps are found in the Eb(n) curve as a consequence of specific types of edges or equivalently the number of secondary atoms. We found that hydrogenation of the edge atoms may change the ground state configuration of the nanocluster. In both cases we determined the magic clusters. Special attention is paid to trigonal and hexagonal shaped carbon clusters and to clusters having a graphene-like configuration. Trigonal clusters are never the ground state, while hexagonal shaped clusters are only the ground state when they have zigzag edges.
Dzhurakhalov Abdiravuf A.
Kosimov D. P.
Peeters François M.
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