Disordered Carbon nanotube alloys in the Effect Medium Super Cell Approximation

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2004-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405364v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.205425

We investigate a disordered single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) in an effective medium super cell approximation (EMSCA). First type of disorder that we consider is the presence of vacancies. Our results show that the vacancies induce some bound states on their neighbor host sites, leading to the creation of a band around the Fermi energy in the SWCNT average density of states.Second type of disorder considered is a substitutional $B_{cb}N_{cn}C_{1-cb-cn}$ alloy due to it's applications in hetrojunctions. We found that for a fixed boron (nitrogen) concentration, by increasing the nitrogen (boron) concentration the averaged semiconducting gap, $E_{g}$, decreases and at a critical concentration it disappears. A consequence of our results for nano electronic devices is that by changing the boron(nitrogen) concentration, one can make a semiconductor SWCNT with a pre-determined energy gap.

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