Book description
Raman spectroscopy is the inelastic scattering of light by matter.
Being highly sensitive to the physical and chemical properties of
materials, as well as to environmental effects that change these
properties, Raman spectroscopy is now evolving into one of the most
important tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology. In contrast to usual
microscopyrelated techniques, the advantages of using light for
nanoscience relate to
both experimental and fundamental aspects. Ado Jorio is a Professor in
the Physics Dept. of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil,
where he also earned his PhD, in 1999. His Post-doctoral research was
done at MIT, USA, where his collaboration with the Dresselhaus group and
with Professor Saito started. He has authored and co-authored several
book chapters and books on carbon science and has been active in science
policy in Latin America.
Mildred Dresselhaus received her Ph. D. at the University of Chicago in
1958 and started research on carbon science in 1960 with Gene
Dresselhaus while working at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She has been an
MIT professor since 1967, and started working with Riichiro Saito in
1991 and with Ado Jorio since 2000.
Riichiro Saito received PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in 1985.
After being a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo in 1985 and
an Associate Professor at the University of Electro-Communication in
Tokyo in 1990, he became Professor at Tohoku University in Sendai since 2003.
Gene F. Dresselhaus received his PhD degree from the University on
California, Berkeley under the supervision of Charles Kittel. He has
actively worked on a variety of problems
in condensed matter physics. He has taught courses in condensed matter
physics at the
University of Chicago and at Cornell University. He currently holds a
Research appointment at MIT and jointly leads a research group at the
MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering which studies graphite
intercalation compounds, fullerenes, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. He
has Co-authored or Co-edited six books on Carbon Science.
