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Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes

By Liesbeth C. Venema
November 2000
Delft University Press
ISBN: 90-407-1995-0
106 pages, illustrated
$51.00 paper original

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This Ph.D. thesis deals with carbon nanotubes, hollow molecular wires with extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties. They are strong, robust, flexible and can be either semiconducting or metallic. Contents include: Theoretical background on carbon nanotubes and STM. Electronic structure of atomically resolved carbon nanotubes. Atomic structure of carbon nanotubes from scanning tunneling microscopy. Spatially resolved scanning tunneling spectroscopy on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Length control of individual carbon nanotubes by nanostructuring with a scanning tunneling microscope. A mechanism for cutting carbon nanotubes with an STM. Imaging electron wave functions of quantized energy levels in carbon nanotubes.

Physics; Chemistry