Electromechanical Properties of Small Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Computational Details
3. Results and Discussion
System | Chirality | |||
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(21,0) | (24,0) | (21,21) | (24,24) | |
MoS | 191 | 259 | 235 | 232 |
MoSe | 184 | 188 | 165 | 174 |
MoTe | 110 | 132 | 119 | 150 |
WS | 160 | 177 | 256 | 203 |
WSe | 184 | 165 | 177 | 211 |
WTe | 44 | 36 | 59 | 57 |
System | Chirality | Electron masses | Hole masses | ||||
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0% | 5% | 10% | 0% | 5% | 10% | ||
MoS | (24,24) | 0.621 | 0.631 | 0.707 | −6.209 | −1.684 | −0.974 |
(24,0) | 0.655 | 0.621 | 0.660 | −10.03 | −1.990 | −1.033 | |
MoSe | (24,24) | 0.868 | 0.938 | 0.884 | −15.366 | −2.233 | −1.140 |
(24,0) | 1.092 | 0.998 | 0.739 | −0.485 | −3.079 | −3.461 | |
WS | (24,24) | 0.434 | 0.457 | 0.524 | −11.498 | −1.934 | −0.498 |
(24,0) | 0.475 | 0.434 | 0.467 | −12.348 | −3.171 | −1.270 | |
WSe | (24,24) | 0.621 | 0.715 | 0.659 | −15.147 | −2.285 | −7.922 |
(24,0) | 0.585 | 0.714 | 0.916 | −1.362 | −2.846 | −1.396 |
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Zibouche, N.; Ghorbani-Asl, M.; Heine, T.; Kuc, A. Electromechanical Properties of Small Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes. Inorganics 2014, 2, 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics2020155
Zibouche N, Ghorbani-Asl M, Heine T, Kuc A. Electromechanical Properties of Small Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes. Inorganics. 2014; 2(2):155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics2020155
Chicago/Turabian StyleZibouche, Nourdine, Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Thomas Heine, and Agnieszka Kuc. 2014. "Electromechanical Properties of Small Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes" Inorganics 2, no. 2: 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics2020155