Figure 7. First-principles density of states of a carbon chain.
The chain is connected to two different types of contacts: sp2 (graphene nanoribbon) and sp3 (carbon nanotube). The projection on real space of the shaded red and blue regions of the DOS is illustrated on the nanoribbon–chain–nanotube system, respectively. The charge neutrality point (Fermi energy) of the system is the reference zero energy.