Twisted helical armchair graphene nanoribbons: mechanical and electronic properties
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2021-05-08T00:00:00
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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Abstract: The Hydrogen and Fluorine planar armchairs graphene nanoribbons (H & F AGNRs), subjected to twist deformation within fixed periodic boundary conditions. H-AGNRs is highly elastic in nature, though passivation with Fluorine does induce the plasticity when twisted beyond threshold torsional strain. This plasticity attributes to the wider bond length distribution suggests distortion of benzo-rings. The bandgap response to the effective strain of narrow GNRs N= 6 , 7 , and 8 get arranged as (i) monotonously increasing for q= 0 , 2 and (ii) decreasing for q= 1 ; here, q= mod(N, 3) in effective strain space (?2?2). The effective strain space is found to be more appropriate for gauging the response of torsional strain. This trend has also been observed for Fluorine passivated AGNRs; however, because of higher sensitive response to torsional strain, the bandgap of N= 7 F-AGNRs drops from Eg? 0.95 eV to Eg? 0.05 eV at extreme torsional strain forming Dirac cone at � K allows dissipationless transport to charge carriers of high kinetic energy at low bias. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.] � 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to EDP Sciences, SIF and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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Bond length, Carrier mobility, Electronic properties, Energy gap, Fluorine, Graphene, Graphene nanoribbon, High energy forming, Kinetic energy, Kinetics, Plasticity, Armchair graphene nanoribbons, Effective strain, Graphene nanoribbons, Length distributions, Mechanical and electronic properties, Periodic boundary conditions, Torsional strain, Twist deformations, Nanoribbons