Carbon nanotubes are one-dimensional and very narrow. These obvious facts
imply that under doping with boron and nitrogen, microscopic doping
inhomogeneity is much more important than for bulk semiconductors. We consider
the possibility of exploiting such fluctuations to create interesting devices.
Using self-consistent tight-binding (SCTB), we study heavily doped highly
compensated nanotubes, revealing the spontaneous formation of structures
resembling chains of random quantum dots, or nano-scale diode-like elements in
series. We also consider truly isolated impurities, revealing simple scaling
properties of bound state sizes and energies.Comment: 4 pages RevTeX, 4 PostScript figure