About the Authors

Riichiro Saito studied physics at the University of Tokyo and got his Dr Sc in 1985. Since 1990, he has been an associate professor of the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He was a visiting scientist of MIT in 1992 where he did pioneering work on carbon nanotubes with Professor Gene Dresselhaus and Professor Mildred S Dresselhaus. He was visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo, three times, in 1991, 1994, and 1997. His major subjects are solid state theory and the materials science of carbon.

Gene Dresselhaus studied physics at the University of California at Berkeley where he worked with Kittel and Kip on the early cyclotron resonance experiments on semiconductors and semimetals. His early postdoctoral work was at the University of Chicago and then a junior faculty position at Cornell University for four years. The major part of his professional career has been at MIT, first at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and later at The Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Mildred S Dresselhaus completed her PhD degree at the University of Chicago. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, she joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and subsequently joined the MIT Faculty in 1968. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the AAAS and served as president of both these organizations. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering. She coauthored a book on the Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes with G Dresselhaus and P C Eklund.

This is an introductory textbook for graduate students and researchers from various fields of science who wish to learn about carbon nanotubes. The field is still at an early stage, and progress continues at a rapid rate. This book focuses on the basic principles behind the physical properties and gives the background necessary to understand the recent developments. Some useful computational source codes which generate coordinates for carbon nanotubes are also included in the appendix.

Contents:

• Carbon Materials
• Tight Binding Calculation of Molecules and Solids
• Structure of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube
• Electronic Structure of Single-Wall Nanotubes
• Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
• Landau Energy Bands of Carbon Nanotubes
• Connecting Carbon Nanotubes
• Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
• Phonon Modes of Carbon Nanotubes
• Raman Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes
• Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

"The book is a well organized systematic treatise that should be enjoyed by any researcher in the field as well as by graduate students. Theories and experiments are truly organically linked in the text and this is its unique feature."

"Those involved in the research of carbon nanotubes will find this book useful for understanding the basic properties of carbon tube materials."