Electronic and piezoelectric properties of BN nanotubes from hybrid density functional method

Details Electronic and piezoelectric properties of BN nanotubes from hybrid density functional method Electronic and piezoelectric properties of BN nanotubes from hybrid density functional method

2005-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510412v1

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Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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The electronic and piezoelectric properties of the boron nitride (BN) nanotubes are investigated with the hybrid density functional (B3LYP) method. We first study bulk h-BN and BN sheet and find that the B3LYP band structure and energy gap are consistent with the GW results. The B3LYP band gap is larger than the LDA one by about 1.8 eV for both zigzag and armchair nanotubes with various radius. We give an alternative interpretation that the optical absorption lines at 4.45 eV might be due to the electron transition in small zigzag BN nanotubes. The piezoelectric constant from the B3LYP method for zigzag BN nanotubes are substantially larger than those in the PVDF polymer family, suggesting BN nanotubes as candidates for various nanoelectromechanical applications.

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