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- Title
Transverse electric field–induced deformation of armchair single-walled carbon nanotube.
- Authors
Biao Kan; Jianning Ding; Ningyi Yuan; Junxiong Wang; Zhigang Chen; Xiaoshuang Chen
- Abstract
The deformation of armchair single-walled carbon nanotube under transverse electric field has been investigated using density functional theory. The results show that the circular cross-sections of the nanotubes are deformed to elliptic ones, in which the tube diameter along the field direction is increased, whereas the diameter perpendicular to the field direction is reduced. The electronic structures of the deformed nanotubes were also studied. The ratio of the major diameter to the minor diameter of the elliptic cross-section was used to estimate the degree of the deformation. It is found that this ratio depends on the field strength and the tube diameter. However, the field direction has little role in the deformation.
- Subjects
CARBON nanotubes; ELECTRIC fields; ELECTRONIC structure; DENSITY functionals; DEFORMATION of surfaces
- Publication
Nanoscale Research Letters, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 7, p1144
- ISSN
1931-7573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11671-010-9617-y