Nanotechnology

This volume is a survey of the machinery and science of the nanometer scale. Written by world-renowned scientists and engineers from a variety of disciplines, it delineates the course of current research and articulates a vision for the development of the nanometer frontiers in electronics, mechanics, chemistry, magnetics, materials, and biology.

Inhalt
1 Nanotechnology.- 2 Nano-electronics for Advanced Computation and Communication.- 3 Nanostructures in Motion: Micro-Instruments for Moving Nanometer-Scale Objects.- 4 Limits of Conventional Lithography.- 5 Fabrication of Atomically Controlled Nanostructures and Their Device Application.- 6 Chemical Approaches to Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Materials.- 7 Nanotechnology in Carbon Materials.- 8 Self-Assembly and Self-Assembled Monolayers in Micro- and Nanofabrication.- 9 Biocatalytic Synthesis of Polymers of Precisely Defined Structures.- 10 Atom Optics: Using Light to Position Atoms.- 11 From the Bottom Up: Building Things with Atoms.- 12 Physical Properties of Nanometer-Scale Magnets.- 13 Single Electron Transport Through a Quatum Dot.- 14 Chaos in Ballistic Nanostructures.- 15 Semiconducting and Superconducting Physics and Devices in the InAslAlSb Materials System.