title: Electronic and Optical Properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.
abstract: In this article, we overview our recent theoretical works on electronic and optical properties of carbon nanotubes by going from the background to the perspectives. Electronic Raman spectra of metallic carbon nanotubes give a new picture of Raman processes. Thermoelectricity of semiconducting nanotubes gives a general concept of the confinement effect on the thermoelectric power factor. Selective excitation of only a single phonon mode is proposed by the pulsed train technique of coherent phonon spectroscopy. Occurrence of both two and four fold degeneracy in the carbon nanotube quantum dot is explained by difference group velocities and the intra/inter valley scattering near the hexagonal corner of the Brillouin zone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan. rsaito@flex.phys.tohoku.ac.jp.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
authors.forename: A R T
authors.initials: ART
authors.lastname: Nugraha
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Hasdeo
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Izumida
keywords: Carbon nanotubes; Coherent phonon; Electric Raman spectroscopy; Intervalley scattering; Quantum dots; Thermoelectric power