Graphitic polymer strips with edge states

✍ Scribed by D.J. Klein

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 446 KB
• Volume: 217
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)e1378-t

✦ Synopsis

The Hllckel band structure is analytically investigated for a family of arbitrary-width n-network polymers which may be viewed as being cut from the graphite lattice. For wider strips a portion of two nearly nonbonding bands on either side of the Fermi energy are found to be localized to opposite edges of the strip. Novel consequences of these edge-localized band orbitals are considered and correlated to a simple resonating valence bond picture.