TY - BOOK AU - Güçlü,Alev Devrim AU - Potasz,Pawel AU - Korkusinski,Marek AU - Hawrylak,Pawel ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Graphene Quantum Dots T2 - NanoScience and Technology, SN - 9783662446119 AV - QC176.8.N35 U1 - 620.5 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - physics KW - engineering KW - Optical materials KW - Nanotechnology KW - Physics KW - Nanoscale Science and Technology KW - Optical and Electronic Materials KW - Nanotechnology and Microengineering KW - Applied and Technical Physics N1 - Single particle properties of graphene quantum dots -- Electron-electron interaction in gated graphene nanostructures -- Magnetic properties of gated graphene nanostructures -- Optical properties of graphene nanostructures N2 - This book reflects the current status of theoretical and experimental research of graphene based nanostructures, in particular quantum dots, at a level accessible to young researchers, graduate students, experimentalists and theorists. It presents the current state of research of graphene quantum dots, a single or few monolayer thick islands of graphene.  It introduces the reader to the electronic and optical properties of graphite, intercalated graphite and graphene, including Dirac fermions, Berry's phase associated with sublattices and valley degeneracy, covers single particle properties of graphene quantum dots, electron-electron interaction, magnetic properties and optical properties of gated graphene nanostructures. The electronic, optical and magnetic  properties of the graphene quantum dots as a function of size, shape, type of edge and carrier density are considered. Special attention is paid to the understanding of edges and the emergence of edge states for zigzag edges. Atomistic tight binding and effective mass approaches to single particle calculations are performed. Furthermore, the theoretical and numerical treatment of electron-electron interactions at the mean-field, HF, DFT and configuration-interaction level is described in detail UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44611-9 ER -