Department of Physics

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Anvar Zakhidov, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
Deputy Director of NanoTech Institute
Nanoscience and Technology

Education

Ph.D., Physics (optics), Institute of Spectroscopy of USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow (1981)
M.S., Tashkent Technical University, Uzbekistan, USSR (1975)

Affiliations

NanoTech Institute

Research Interests

Physics and chemistry of advanced materials: carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, theory of excitons, polarons, solitons in solids; optical and microwave spectroscopy; molecular superconductivity, ferromagnetism; conducting polymers electronic molecular devices.

Selected Publications:

  1. Zhang, M.; Fang, S.; Zakhidov, A.A.; Lee, S.B.; Aliev, A.E.; Williams, C.; Atkinson, K.; Baughman, R.H. “Strong, transparent, multifunctional, carbon nanotube sheets”, Science (2005) 309: 1215.
  2. Baughman, R.H.; Zakhidov, A.A.; de Heer, W.A. “Carbon Nanotubes – The Route Towards Applications”, Science (2002) 297: 787-792.
  3. Gartstein, Y. N.; Zakhidov, A. A.; Baughman, R. H.“Charge-Induced Anisotropic Distortions of Semiconducting and Metallic Carbon Nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002) 89: 45503.

 

  • Updated: June 1, 2006
June 1, 2006