MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED OSCILLATORS HAVING TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS

Effect of vacancy and Stone–Wales defects on the oscillatory behavior of (5,5)/(10,10) carbon nanotube-based oscillator are studied using NVE molecular dynamics simulations. Results show that defects reduce stability of the oscillators. Effect of single vacancy defect on stability is very small, whereas Stone–Wales defect considerably reduces the stability thereby damping the oscillations quickly. Further increase in density of vacancy defects causes a monotonic decrease of stability of oscillator. In all cases the initial temperature (1 and 300 K) had almost no effect on the oscillation stability.