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| VOLUME 92 (2010) | ISSUE 5 | PAGE 390 |
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Metallic Beta-Phase Silicon Nanowires: Structure and Electronic Properties
P. B. Sorokin+*, P. V. Avramov
 , V. A. Demin+, L. A. Chernozatonskii*+Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russian *Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, 119334, Moscow, Russian  Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
Abstract
Electronic band structure and energetic stability of two types of <110> and <001> oriented silicon nanowires in β-Sn phase with the surface terminated by hydrogen atoms were studied using density functional theory. It was found that β-Sn nanowires are metastable with zero band gap against to nanowires in diamond phase. The relative energy of the studied wires tends to the energy of the bulk silicon crystal in β-Sn phase. |