CNTbands v2.0 can simulate electronic band structure and density-of-states for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon nanoribbons (CNRs). It also computes some basic parameters, such as nanotube diameter, number of hexagons in the unit cell, band gap, etc.

Users may select the CNR structure to be simulated by selecting a starting point and components for a chiral vector.

CNTs are simulated either with a simple Pz orbital model or Extended Huckel theory. The Extended Huckel model can deliver more accurate simulation results, especially for small-diameter CNTs.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this work:

This project was funded by the NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

The original CNTbands 1.0 was written in 2002 by J. Guo of Purdue University. It was based on a script by M. P. Anantram of NASA Ames Research Center and the paper, L. Yang, M. P. Anantram, and J. P. Lu, "Band-gap change of carbon nanotubes: Effect of small uniaxial and torsional strain," Physical Review B, vol. 60, no. 29, pp. 13874-13878, 1999.

• K. Nakada, M. Fujita, G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus, "Edge state in graphene ribbons: Nanometer size effect and edge shape dependence," Physical Review B, 54(24), 17954 – 17961 (1996).
• J. Cerda and F. Soria, "Accurate and transferable extended Huckel-type tight-binding parameters," Physical Review B, 61(12), 7965 - 7971 (2000).
• Description of the basic model:
  Band-gap change of carbon nanotubes: Effect of small uniaxial and torsional strain, Phys Rev B, 60(19), 13874-13878 (1999).
• Good introduction to energy bands in CNTs:
  "Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes," by R. Saito, G. Dresselhaus, and M. Dresselhaus, Imperial College Press (1998).
• Some description of the value for the tight binding energy:
  Structural and electronic properties of pentagon-heptagon pair defects in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B 53, 11108–11113 (1996).
• Note that the graphene sheet model has limitations:
  Metallic and semiconducting narrow carbon nanotubes, by I. Cabria, J. W. Mintmire, and C. T. White2, Phys Rev B, 67, p. 121406, 2003.
• Description of Extended Huckel theory:
  D. Kienle, J. Cerda, and A. Ghosh, Extended Huckel theory for band structure, chemistry, and transport: I. carbon nanotubes, J. Appl. Phys., vol. 100, p. 043714 (2006).

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• If you use the Pz-orbital model, please cite:
  L. Yang, M. P. Anantram, and J. P. Lu, "Band-gap change of carbon nanotubes: Effect of small uniaxial and torsional strain," Physical Review B, vol. 60, no. 29, pp. 13874-13878, 1999.

• If you use the Extended Huckel model, please cite:
  D. Kienle, J. Cerda, and A. Ghosh, Extended Huckel theory for band structure, chemistry, and transport: I. carbon nanotubes, J. Appl. Phys., vol. 100, p. 043714 (2006).

• (2019), "CNTbands," https://nanohub.org/resources/cntbands-ext. (DOI: 10.4231/D3H98ZC6B).

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1. ANTSY
2. band structure
3. carbon nanoribbons
4. carbon nanotubes
5. CNTbands Tool
6. density of states
7. materials science
8. nanoelectronics
9. nanotubes
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