In the early nineties, the development of high-precision nano-characterization tools (such as high resolution TEM, STM...) has enabled the discovery and the study of carbon nanotubes [1]. For now almost two decades, such nano-material has been used as a playground for the exploration of Nanosciences and the understanding of physical phenomena in low dimension [2]. The recent fabrication of two-dimensional graphene has sparked novel interest in carbon-based nanoelectronics, together with excitement in novel transport properties conveyed by sp2 hybridization and massless Dirac Fermions physics [3].
In this talk, I will draw some historical perspective on nanotubes and graphene discoveries, including current scientific and technological challenges. Of particular concern are the physical properties of chemically-modified forms of carbon nanotubes and graphene based materials, owing to their related potentiality for new material and device functionalities, covering the so-called beyond-CMOS fields of application.
[1] S. Iijima, Nature (London) 354, 56 (1991).
[2] J.C. Charlier, X. Blase and S. Roche, Electronic and Transport in Carbon Nanotubes, Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 677 (2007).
[2] K.S. Novoselov, A.K. Geim, S.V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S.V. Dubonos, I.V. Grigorieva, & A.A. Firsov, Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films, Science 306, 666-669 (2004). C Berger et al., Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene, Science 312, 1191 (2006).
[3] A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, N. M. R. Peres, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim, The Electronic Properties of Graphene Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 109-162 (2009).
In the early nineties, the development of high-precision nano-characterization tools (such as high resolution TEM, STM...) has enabled the discovery and the study of carbon nanotubes [1]. For now almost two decades, such nano-material has been used as a playground for the exploration of Nanosciences and the understanding of physical phenomena in low dimension [2]. The recent fabrication of two-dimensional graphene has sparked novel interest in carbon-based nanoelectronics, together with excitement in novel transport properties conveyed by sp2 hybridization and massless Dirac Fermions physics [3].
In this talk, I will draw some historical perspective on nanotubes and graphene discoveries, including current scientific and technological challenges. Of particular concern are the physical properties of chemically-modified forms of carbon nanotubes and graphene based materials, owing to their related potentiality for new material and device functionalities, covering the so-called beyond-CMOS fields of application.
[1] S. Iijima, Nature (London) 354, 56 (1991).
[2] J.C. Charlier, X. Blase and S. Roche, Electronic and Transport in Carbon Nanotubes, Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 677 (2007).
[2] K.S. Novoselov, A.K. Geim, S.V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S.V. Dubonos, I.V. Grigorieva, & A.A. Firsov, Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films, Science 306, 666-669 (2004). C Berger et al., Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene, Science 312, 1191 (2006).
[3] A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, N. M. R. Peres, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim, The Electronic Properties of Graphene Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 109-162 (2009).
