The phrase "alter the gap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate a change or modification in a difference or distance between two points, whether literal or metaphorical.
Example: "To improve the project's efficiency, we need to alter the gap between the planning phase and execution."
Alternatives: "change the disparity" or "modify the difference."
We predict that presence of Cu atoms in GNRs, significantly alter the band gap and can be used in band gap engineering of nanoribbons.
This is sensible, but unsatisfying: it may expand the circle of winners and reshuffle its membership, though it seems unlikely that it will fundamentally alter the growing gap between them and the losers.
In particularly, edge substitution actually almost does not alter the band gap of CGNR.
Elastic strain is one of the methods to alter the band gap of semiconductors.
We explored whether prior history of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) alter the 'gender gap' among patients presenting with ACS.
In addition, the combined use of both TIA and DCIA are more effective for predicting peak runoff than that using a single impervious metric; however, rainfall amount, peak location, and duration alter the contribution gaps between TIA and DCIA and the overall performance of the regression model.
The seemingly contradictory effects of PKCs on Cx43 and GJIC likely reflect the complexity of channel regulation, where it may regulate and alter the permeability of gap junctions and hemichannels [ 114].
Nanostructures of narrow band-gap semiconductiors such as PbS provide a large scope for band-gap engineering as strong quantum confinement effects can alter the bulk band-gap value all the way from 0.41 to 2.3 eV, rendering the material transparent in most of the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The electric field could induce the semiconductor metal transition, change the direct gap into the indirect gap, alter the subband curvatures, destroy the double degeneracy, produce the new band-edge states, make more subbands group around the Fermi level, and widen the π-band width.
