Carbon nanotubes have come a long way since their modern rediscovery in 1991. This time period has afforded a great many scholars across the globe to conduct a vast amount of research investigating their fundamental properties and ensuing applications. Finally, after two decades, the knowledge and understanding obtained, once only accessible to select scholars, is now sufficiently widespread and accepted that the time is ripe for a textbook on this matter. This textbook develops the basic solid-state and device physics of carbon nanotubes and to a lesser extent graphene. The lesser coverage of graphene is simply due to its relative infancy, with a good deal of the device physics still in its formative stage.

The technical discourse starts with the solid-state physics of graphene, subsequently warping into the solid-state physics of nanotubes, which serves as the foundation of the device physics of metallic and semiconducting nanotubes. An elementary and limited introduction to the device physics of graphene nanoribbons and graphene are also developed. This textbook is suitable for senior undergraduates and graduate students with prior exposure to semiconductor devices. Students with a background in solid-state physics will find this book dovetails with their physics background and extends their knowledge into a new material that can potentially have an enormous impact in society. Scholars in the fields of materials, devices, and circuits and researchers exploring ideas and applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology will also find the book appealing as a reference or to learn something new about an old soul (carbon).