An introduction to graphene and carbon nanotubes / John Edward Proctor, Daniel Alfonso Melendrez Armada, Aravind Vijayaraghavan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index.

1 Graphite; 1.1.1 Crystal structure of graphite and graphene; 1.1.2 Electronic properties of graphite and graphene layers; 1.2 Carbon fibres; 1.3 Buckminsterfullerene (C[sub(60)]) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs); 1.4 Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs); 1.5 Graphene; References; 2 Interatomic Bonding in Graphene and Diamond; 2.1 An introduction to molecular orbital theory; 2.2 Orbital hybridization in carbon and the C-C interatomic bond; 2.2.1 sp hybridization. 3.4 Valence and conduction bands in graphene3.5 Massless Dirac fermions in graphene; 3.6 How important is the group velocity at the Fermi level?; 3.7 Vanishing density of states close to the K point in graphene; 3.7.1 Density of states in two-dimensional (2D) systems; 3.7.2 Density of states in graphene at the K point; 3.8 Cyclotron motion of electrons in graphene; 3.8.1 Semi-classical model of cyclotron motion; 3.8.2 Quantization of cyclotron orbits in graphene; 3.8.3 Cyclotron orbits in graphene: Comparison of theory to experiment; References. 4 Advanced Considerations on the Electronic Dispersion Relation of Graphene4.1 The Hall effect; 4.1.1 A classical treatment of the Hall effect; 4.1.2 Quantum Hall effect; 4.1.3 What can we learn from the quantum Hall effect?; 4.2 Quantum Hall effect in graphene; 4.2.1 Quantization of the Hall effect in graphene; 4.2.2 Density of states at the K point in graphene; 4.2.3 Observation of the quantum Hall effect at ambient temperature in graphene; References; 5 Electronic Dispersion Relation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs); 5.1 Some introductory notes. 5.2 Primitive unit cell and first Brillouin zone of SWCNTs5.2.1 Primitive unit cell; 5.2.2 First Brillouin zone and quantization of the electron wavevector; 5.3 Prediction of the semiconducting or metallic nature of individual SWCNTs; 5.4 Energy dispersion relation of armchair SWCNTs; 5.5 Energy dispersion relation of zigzag SWCNTs; 5.6 Electronic density of states in SWCNTs; 5.6.1 Density of states in one-dimensional (1D) systems; 5.6.2 Density of states in SWCNTs; 5.7 Excitons in SWCNTs; 5.8 Experimental verification of SWCNT dispersion relation; 5.8.1 Photoluminescence (PL) in SWCNTs.