  Carbon Nanotubes
ISBN: 978-3-527-40386-8
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224 pages
March 2004
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1 Introduction.
2 Structure and Symmetry.
2.1 Structure of Carbon Nanotubes.
2.2 Experiments.
2.3 Symmetry of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.
2.3.1 Symmetry Operations.
2.3.2 Symmetry-based Quantum Numbers.
2.3.3 Irreducible representations.
2.3.4 Projection Operators.
2.3.5 Phonon Symmetries in Carbon Nanotubes.
2.4 Summary.
3 Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.
3.1 Graphene.
3.1.1 Tight-binding Description of Graphene.
3.2 Zone-folding Approximation.
3.3 Electronic Density of States.
3.3.1 Experimental Verifications of the DOS.
3.4 Beyond Zone Folding — Curvature Effects.
3.4.1 Secondary Gaps in Metallic Nanotubes.
3.4.2 Rehybridization of the σ and π States.
3.5 Nanotube Bundles.
3.5.1 Low-energy Properties.
3.5.2 Visible Energy Range.
3.6 Summary.
4 Optical P roperties.
4.1 Absorption and Emission.
4.1.1 Selection Rules and Depolarization.
4.2 Spectra of Isolated Tubes.
4.3 Photoluminescence Excitation — (n1, n2) Assignment.
4.4 4-Å-diameter Nanotubes.
4.5 Bundles of Nanotubes.
4.6 Excited-state Carrier Dynamics.
4.7 Summary.
5 Electronic Transport.
5.1 Room-temperature Conductance of Nanotubes.
5.2 Electron Scattering.
5.3 Coulomb Blockade.
5.4 Luttinger Liquid.
5.5 Summary.
6 Elastic Properties.
6.1 Continuum Model of Isolated Nanotubes.
6.1.1 Ab-initio, Tight-binding, and Force-constants Calculations.
6.2 Pressure Dependence of the Phonon Frequencies.
6.3 Micro-mechanical Manipulations.
6.4 Summary.
7 Raman Scattering.
7.1 Raman Basics and Selection Rules.
7.2 Tensor Invariants.
7.2.1 Polarized Measurements.
7.3 Raman Measurements at Large Phonon q.
7.4 Double Resonant Raman Scattering.
7.5 Summary.
8 Vibrational Properties.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Radial Breathing Mode.
8.2.1 The RBM in Isolated and Bundled Nanotubes.
8.2.2 Double-walled Nanotubes.
8.3 The Defect-induced D Mode.
8.3.1 The D Mode in Graphite.
8.3.2 The D Mode in Carbon Nanotubes.
8.4 Symmetry of the Raman Modes.
8.5 High-energy Vibrations.
8.5.1 Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy.
8.5.2 Metallic Nanotubes.
8.5.3 Single- and Double-resonance Interpretation.
8.6 Summary.
8.7 What we Can Learn from the Raman Spectra of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes.
Appendix A: Character and Correlation Tables of Graphene.
Appendix B: Raman Intensities in Unoriented Systems.
Appendix C: Fundamental Constants.
Bibliography.
Index.
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