1. 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