An Accidental Statistician

Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction -- The Carbon Age; 1.1 Graphene; 1.2 Carbon Nanotubes; 2 Theoretical Framework; 2.1 Many-Particle Hamilton Operator; 2.2 Microscopic Bloch Equations; 2.2.1 Hartree-Fock Approximation; 2.2.2 Second-Order Born-Markov Approximation; 2.2.3 Many-Particle Dephasing; 2.3 Electronic Band Structure of Graphene; 2.3.1 Structure and Symmetry of Graphene; 2.3.2 Tight-Binding Approach; 2.4 Electronic Band Structure of Carbon Nanotubes; 2.4.1 Structure and Symmetry of CNTs; 2.4.2 Zone-Folding Approximation; 2.4.3 Nanotube Families.;The book introduces the reader into the ultrafast nanoworld of graphene and carbon nanotubes, including their microscopic tracks and unique optical finger prints. The author reviews the recent progress in this field by combining theoretical and experimental achievements. He offers a clear theoretical foundation by presenting transparently derived equations. Recent experimental breakthroughs are reviewed. This makes the book suitable for a wider audience, from graduate students and to researchers in academia and industry working on optoelectronic devices, renewable energies, and in the semicond.