Pure carbon nanoscale devices: Nanotube heterojunctions.

heptagon pair. The interface between the unit cells of the (8,0) and (5,3) half tubes contains three heptagons, three pentagons, and two hexagons. Two different matching orientations are possible: one with the two hexagons adjacent, the other without. We choose to study the configuration in which the hexagons are separated from each other. The sequence of n-fold rings around the circumference is then 6-7-5-6-7-5-7-5. In the tight-binding p-electron approximation [8], the (8,0) tube has a 1.2 eV gap [1] and the (7,1) tube is a semimetal. Within tight binding, these tubes form an