| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Electronic structure and phonon-induced carrier relaxation in CdSe and PbSe quantum dots -- Phonon-induced free carrier dynamics in carbon nanotubes -- Including electron-hole correlations : excitonic and vibrational properties of carbon nanotubes -- Carbon nanotube technological implementations |
| Summary |
Rapid advances in chemical synthesis and fabrication techniques have led to novel nano-sized materials that exhibit original and often unforeseen properties. One of the greatest advantages of these nano-systems is that their electronic and optical properties can be controlled, not only by the material's inherent features, but also by the sample's size, shape, and topology. This flexibility makes them ideal for applications in several fields, ranging from electronics and optoelectronics to biology and medicine. However, in order to design nanoelectronic devices, a clear understanding of their fundamental properties is needed. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are two of the most promising examples of low-dimensional nanomaterials. These two types of nano-systems have been chosen for the extensive studies presented in this book. The book investigates QDs and SWCNTs using quantum-chemical calculations that describe intricate details of excited state phenomena, and provides information about the mechanisms that occur on the atomic level and that are extremely difficult - if not impossible - to probe experimentally. It delivers, consistently and coherently, a novel approach to the nanomaterials which is promising for today's technologies as well as their future. This approach elegantly overcomes computational difficulties known in the field, and shares ways to reach top performance in description of combined quantum effects of molecular vibrations and exciton formation on the realistic size numerical models. The reader will acquire the pioneering methodology supported by most recent original results, prospectively applicable to the design of new nano-devices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-184) and index |
| Notes |
Svetlana Kilina received her BSc and MSc in physics from Belarus State University in 1996 and taught physics to both college and high school students in Belarus, including preparing gifted children to compete in the National Physics Olympics. She then spent three years at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany as a research assistant studying transport properties of disordered interacting electrons. After coming to the United States in 2000, she was employed as a math and science tutor at the University of Oregon. From 2003, she has been pursuing a PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Washington. During her PhD studies, she has also had an opportunity to work as a graduate research assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, getting internships for summer 2005 and spring/summer 2006 and 2007. Her research focuses on photoinduced electron-phonon dynamics in nanoscale systems, such as quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, conjugated polymers and DNA materials |
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Print version record |
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Quantum dots.
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Nanotubes.
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Nanotechnology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Solid State.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Semiconductors.
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SCIENCE / Solid State Physics
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General
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TECHNOLOGY / Material Science
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Nanotechnology
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Nanotubes
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Quantum dots
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Habenicht, Bradley F.
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| ISBN |
9789814241311 |
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9814241318 |
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1282442929 |
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9781282442924 |
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9786612442926 |
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6612442921 |
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9780429111341 |
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0429111347 |
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9780429533631 |
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0429533632 |
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9780429548338 |
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0429548338 |
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