Session W25: Nanowires IV: Nitrides and Others

2:30 PM–5:06 PM, Thursday, March 24, 2005
LACC Room: 501A

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DMP
Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL

Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.MAR.W25.2

Abstract: W25.00002 : Band-gap and the Electronic structure of BN nanotubes

2:42 PM–2:54 PM

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Authors:

  David Okawa
    (Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, California, 94720)

  Shaul Aloni
    (Molecular Foundry MSD, LBNL, Berkeley, Caifornia 94720 and Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, California, 94720)

  William Mickelson
  Gavi Begtrup
    (MSD, LBNL, Berkeley, Caifornia 94720 and Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley, California, 94720)

  Alex Zettl

A verity of BN nanotubes were studied via high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. Careful examination of low energy loss spectra (0-50 eV) the band gap of the single tube can be extracted. Moreover the spectral features give insight into the BN nanotube valence band structure.

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