Transverse Electric Fields Electronic Structure of Mechanically Altered Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Under Transverse Electric Fields Lilia M. Woods, Department of Physics University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Band gap energy Eg of radially deformed nanotubes as a function of electric field strength for various filed orientaions Radially deformed carbon nanotube with an isolated defect on its highest curvature Deformation energy Eh and defect formation energy Eh/Defect as a function of degree of radial deformation Stone-Wall (SW) defect – rotated C-C bond Substitutional Nitrogen (N) impurity mono-vacancy (MV) – C atom removed