Symmetry-Adapted Tight-Binding Electronic Structure Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects, Kinks, Twist, and Stretch

Soumya Mukherjee, Hossein Pourmatin, Yang Wang +2

This paper applies a symmetry-adapted method to examine the influence of deformation and defects on the electronic structure and band structure in carbon nanotubes. First, the symm…