Effects of vacancy percentage on the energy gap of zigzag single-wall carbon nanotubes

The influence of vacancy percentage on the energy gap of zigzag single-wall carbon nanotube is investigated by the Greenʹs function method in coherent potential approximation. Our probes for various kinds of zigzag single-wall carbon nanotubes show that by increasing vacancy percentage the energy gap is also increased, so for metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes, a metallic to semi-metallic transition is occurred. However, any transition does not appear for semiconductor carbon nanotubes. So by controlling on concentration of vacancies, one can make a semiconductor SWCNT with a predetermined energy gap which is useful in nanoelectronic devices.