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Using the COMPASS force field, natural linear vibrations of graphane (graphene hydrogenated on both sides) nanoribbons are simulated. The frequency spectrum of a graphane sheet consists of three continuous intervals (low-frequency, mid-frequency, and narrow high-frequency) and two gaps between them. The construction of dispersion curves for nanoribbons with a zigzag and chair structure of the edges show that the frequencies of edge vibrations (edge phonons) can be present in the gaps of the frequency spectrum. In the first type of nanoribbons, two dispersion curves are in the low-frequency gap of the spectrum and four dispersion curves in the second gap. These curves correspond to phonons moving only along the nanoribbon edges (the mean depth of their penetration toward the nanoribbon center does not exceed 0.15 nm).
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Savin, 2018, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2018, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 1029–1035.
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Savin, A.V. Edge Vibrations of Graphane Nanoribbons. Phys. Solid State 60, 1046–1053 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783418050281
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