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Absorption in Finite-Length Chevron-Type Graphene Nanoribbons

Absorption in Finite-Length Chevron-Type Graphene Nanoribbons

Authors :
V. A. Saroka
Olivia Pulci
V. G. Demin
Davide Grassano
A. L. Pushkarchuk
Hazem Abdelsalam
S. A. Kuten
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
American Institute of Physics, 2018.

Abstract

Using a combination of the density functional theory and tight-binding calculations, we study electronic and optical properties of asymmetric chevron-type graphene nanoribbons recently synthesized with atomic precision. We demonstrate that the low-energy optical selection rules in such infinite chiral ribbons are more reminiscent of those for zigzag rather than for armchair ribbons. It is also shown that, starting from about 25 nm long ribbons, the low-energy absorption and therefore the selection rules of infinitely long ribbons are well reproduced in the finite cluster approach. Hence, ribbons longer than 25 nm (about 28 unit cells) can be treated as infinitely long ones.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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