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Scope and Aims:
Carbon nanotubes have been discovered about ten years ago, and since
then they have developed as a preferred object of both fundamental and
applied research. Carbon nanotubes are seamless tubes of graphitic
carbon, about 1 nm in diameter and 1 mm long. They are
semiconducting or metallic and can act as quantum wires or quantum
dots. Single electron effects, conductance quantisation,
electron-electron interactions in quasi one-dimensional conductors,
superconductivity and many other effects can be studied. As for
applications, nanotubes acts as conducting leads, as active part of
nanotransistors, as cold electron sources and and as reinforcing filler
for nanocomposites.
The seminar
will cover mainly the following topics:
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Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
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Carbon Arc
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Laser Ablation
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Chemical Vapour Deposition
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X-Ray and Optical Characterization
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Electrical Transport
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Theory
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Electron Microscopy
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Applications in Electronics
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Cold Electron sources
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Nanotube-based Composites
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Artificial Muscles
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Hydrogen Storage
Tentative
List Of Invited Speakers:
Nicole Grobert (Stuttgart, D), Patrick Bernier (Montpellier, F),
Wolfgang Maser (Saragoza, E), Janos. B. Nagy (Namur, B), Ursulla
Dettlaff (Stuttgart, D), Vojislav Krstic (Grenoble, F), Angel Rubio
(San Sebastian, E), Annick Loiseau (Paris, F), Georg Duesberg
(Muenchen, D), Po-Wen Chiu (Stuttgart, D), John Robertson (Cambridge,
UK), Jonnathan Coleman (Dublin, IR), Jean-Michel Benoit (Stuttgart, D),
Michael Hirscher (Stuttgart, D).
Titles of invited lectures
Preliminary agenda
Information about
  the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus
foundation
the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (including
travel information)
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