Constant perturbation in the tight-binding bands of a single-walled carbon nanotube

Authors

Louella Judy Vasquez; Cristine Villagonzalo

Source

Proceedings of the 23rd Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress, Central Philippine University, Iloilo City, 26–28 Oct 2005, SPP-2005-019.

Abstract

Using a tight-binding calculation, we explain the origin of a large thermopower S in ropes of single-walled carbon nanotubes. We have shown that, by breaking the symmetric energy bands and increasing the overlap energy γ0, a larger S can be obtained. We have also found that a 10% increase in γ0 resulted to a thermopower that is four times as large.