Image of the Week - 31 January 2006

Cover for "Applied Physics of Nanotubes"

The cover background image for the book "Applied Physics of Nanotubes: Fundamentals of Theory, Optics and Transport Devices," Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Series, Ser. Ed.: Ph. Avouris, Springer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (2005), was designed by ITG. The image depicts a "Single-Wall Nanotube METFET inverter: organic molecules wrap around a metallic tube channel and modify it to a semiconductor while the second tube is used for gating". This image was produced in the VMIL using Cerius^2, mol2mel, Maya, and Photoshop. Concept by: Slava V. Rotkin, Physics Department, Lehigh University, Image by: Ben Grosser, ITG, Beckman Institute.

Image Courtesy: Slava V. Rotkin, Ben Grosser

Contact: rotkin@lehigh.edu, grosser@uiuc.edu