| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R17140/01 |
| Title: |
Theory of Optical and Kinetic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes |
| Principal Investigator: |
Falko, Professor V |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Lancaster University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 2001 |
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31 January 2005 |
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192,869
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Carbon nanatubes are a recently discovered material that displays an impressive list of extreme electrical, optical and mechanical properties observable from room temperature down to millikelvins. A single-wall nanatube is a really unique system to study quantum interference and electron-electron correlation effects, such as conductance quantusation and the Luttinger liquid formation. Carbon nanotubes also have a great potential for various applications that range from a single-molecule field effect transistor operational at room temperature to the development of nano-scanning instrumentation, such as nanotweezers, optoelectronics and a new type of field-emission electron sources. In view of a growing range of applications that carbon nanatubes find in instrumentation physics, a systematic study of kinetic and optical properties of this material is highly desirable. The proposed research programme includes a comprehensive theoretical analysis of three groups of questions related to: a) optical properties of nanatubes, such as the inter-subband transitions in semi-conducting and formation of excitons, b) kinetic effects related to electron-phonon interaction, such as calculation of non4inear IV characteristics and analysis of coding kinetics of metallic nanatubes overheated by current, and c) mechanisms of electron spin-relaxation in nanotubes.
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