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1.2 The Experimental Theorist: Computational Modelling |
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1.3 Outline of This Thesis |
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2 The Structural and Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes |
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2.1 The Structure of Carbon Nanotubes |
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10 | (2) |
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2.1.1 Carbon Nanotube Wires, Fibres and Networks |
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2.2 The Geometry of Individual Carbon Nanotubes |
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12 | (2) |
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2.3 The Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes |
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2.3.1 Tight-Binding Model of Graphene |
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2.3.2 Zone-Folding Approximation |
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2.3.3 Beyond the π/π* Zone-Folding Model |
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21 | (1) |
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2.3.4 Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotube Bundles |
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22 | (3) |
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3 Mesoscopic Current and Ballistic Conductance |
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3.2 Scattering Lengths in Carbon Nanotubes |
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26 | (3) |
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3.3 Conductance in Mesoscopic Materials: The Landauer-Buttiker Formalism |
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3.3.1 Current from Transmission |
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3.3.2 Ballistic Conductance |
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31 | (2) |
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3.3.3 Conduction at Low Bias and Linear-Response |
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3.3.4 Transmission from Green's Functions |
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3.3.5 Limitations of the Landauer-Buttiker Formalism |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (4) |
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4 First-Principles Methods |
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39 | (1) |
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4.2 The Exact Solution to the Schrodinger Equation |
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40 | (3) |
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4.2.1 The Variational Principle |
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4.2.2 Exponential Scaling |
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42 | (1) |
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4.3 Density Functional Theory |
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4.3.1 The Hohenberg-Kohn Theorems |
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4.3.2 The Kohn-Sham Mapping |
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4.3.3 The Exchange-Correlation Functional |
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48 | (2) |
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4.3.4 Quasi-particles from Density Functional Theory |
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50 | (1) |
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4.3.5 Limitations of Density Functional Theory |
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51 | (1) |
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4.4 Practical Implementations |
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52 | (7) |
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53 | (2) |
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4.4.2 The Pseudopotential Approximation |
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55 | (2) |
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4.4.3 Periodic and Aperiodic Systems |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (4) |
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5 First-Principles Electronic Transport |
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63 | (3) |
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5.1.1 Preliminaries and Definitions |
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5.1.2 Non-orthogonal Basis |
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5.2 Constructing the Device Matrices |
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66 | (3) |
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66 | (1) |
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5.2.2 The Auxiliary Simulation Geometry |
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67 | (2) |
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5.3 Optimisation Strategies |
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5.4 Properties Beyond the Transmission Coefficients |
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5.4.1 Properties of the Leads |
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5.4.2 Eigenchannels for Multi-lead Devices |
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5.5.1 Poly-acetylene Wire |
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5.5.2 Conduction Between Terminated Carbon Nanotubes |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (4) |
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6 Momentum-Resonant Tunnelling Between Carbon Nanotubes |
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87 | (20) |
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87 | (2) |
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6.2 Linear-Response from Perturbation Theory |
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89 | (3) |
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92 | (1) |
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6.4 Resonant Tunnelling Between CNTs |
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6.4.1 Scaling Relations of the Momentum-Resonant Scattering Mechanism |
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96 | (1) |
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6.5 Momentum Resonances in Compositionally Disordered Networks |
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96 | (4) |
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6.6 Momentum Resonances in Doped Nanotubes |
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100 | (3) |
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6.7 Resonant Back-Scattering |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (3) |
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7 First-Principles Conductance Between Carbon Nanotubes |
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107 | (24) |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (3) |
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7.2.1 Generating the Structure |
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7.3 The Role of Bend Angle |
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112 | (3) |
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7.3.1 The Effect of Chirality Mismatch |
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114 | (1) |
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7.4 The Role of End Termination |
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115 | (8) |
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7.4.1 The Effect of Chirality Mismatch |
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122 | (1) |
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7.5 Conductance Between Terminated Nanotubes at Finite Bias |
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123 | (4) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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7.5.3 Non-equilibrium Forces |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (4) |
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129 | (2) |
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8 Charge Doping in Water-Adsorbed Carbon Nanotubes |
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131 | (16) |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (1) |
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8.3 Computing the Charge Polarisation |
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134 | (4) |
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138 | (2) |
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8.5 Estimating the Residual Charge Transfer |
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140 | (1) |
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8.6 Considerations of the Electronic Energy Level Alignment |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (4) |
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144 | (3) |
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147 | (4) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (3) |
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Appendix A Transmission from Green's Functions |
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Appendix B Block Tri-diagonal Matrix Inversion |
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Appendix C Classical Electrostatic Charge Polarisation Model |
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163 | (2) |
Appendix D Local Density of States |
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