Ebook: Graphene and Its Fascinating Attributes

This Handbook explains basic concepts underlying electromagnetic properties of materials, addresses ways of deploying them in modern applications, and supplies pertinent data compiled for the first time in a single volume. Examples, including tables, charts, and graphs, are furnished from a practical applications view point of electromagnetic materials in various fields. These applications have grown enormously in recent years, pertinent to electromagnetic shields, radar absorbing materials, bioelectromagnetic phantoms, smart materials, electromagnetically active surfaces, exotic magnets, application-specific electrodes, and ferrites, etc Graphene, a single sheet of graphite, has an unconventional electronic structure that can be described in terms of massless Dirac Fermions. This interesting electronic feature is not only an important fundamental issue in condensed matter physics but also holds future promise in post-Si electronic/spintronics device applications. Graphene is the most fundamental building block, with which a variety of carbon-based materials such as graphite, fullerene and carbon nanotubes can be created. The diverse chemical, electronic and magnetic properties of nanographene and graphene are mainly due to their geometrical electronic structure. This book presents the frontiers of graphene research ranging from important issues in condensed matter physics and chemistry to advanced device applications.  Read more... Ch. 1. Graphene : Synthesis, functionalization and properties / C. N. R. Rao ... [et al.] -- ch. 2. Synthesis and characterization of exfoliated graphene- and graphene oxide-based composites / K. R. Rasmi, K. Chakrapani and S. Sampath -- ch. 3. Singlet open-shell character of polyperiacenes / A. Shimizu ... [et al.] -- ch. 4. Doping of graphene : A computational study / A. K. Manna and S. K. Pati -- ch. 5. Vibrations and buckling of uni-axially strained graphene and BN-monolayer : A first-principles study / K. P. S. S. Hembram and U. V. Waghmare -- ch. 6. Raman spectroscopy of graphene edges / R. Saito -- ch. 7. Probing single and bilayer graphene field effect transistors by raman spectroscopy / A. Das, B. Chakraborty and A. K. Sood -- ch. 8. Phonons and electron-phonon interaction in graphene and nanotube / T. Ando -- ch. 9. Magnetic structures of edge-state spins in nanographene and a network of nanographene sheets / T. Enoki, V. L. J. Joly and K. Takai -- ch. 10. Electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons / K. Wakabayashi -- ch. 11. Gate-voltage modulation in graphene / K. Tsukagoshi ... [et al.] -- ch. 12. Kondo physics in graphene / K. Sengupta -- ch. 13. Noise in graphene transistors / A. N. Pal and A. Ghosh -- ch. 14. Spin transport in single- and multi-layer graphene / M. Shiraishi ... [et al.] -- ch. 15. Quantum complexity in graphene / G. Baskaran