Handbook of nanoscience, engineering, and technology / edited by William A. Goddard, III ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goddard, William A., III, 1937-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Electrical engineering handbook series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molecular electronics.

Nanotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various paging) : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2003.

Summary:

With contributions from a host of world-class experts and pioneers in the field, this handbook sets forth the fundamentals of nanoelectromechanical systems, studies their fabrication, and explores some of their most promising applications. It provides comprehensive information and references for nanoscale structures, devices, and systems.

Contents:

Section 1 The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

1 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics / Richard P. Feynman 1

1.1 Transcript 1

2 Room at the Bottom, Plenty of Tyranny at the Top / Karl Hess 1

2.1 Rising to the Feynman Challenge 1

2.2 Tyranny at the Top 2

2.3 New Forms of Switching and Storage 3

2.4 New Architectures 5

2.5 How Does Nature Do It? 6

Section 2 Molecular and Nano-Electronics: Concepts, Challenges, and Designs

3 Engineering Challenges in Molecular Electronics / Gregory N. Parsons 1

3.2 Silicon-Based Electrical Devices and Logic Circuits 2

3.3 CMOS Device Parameters and Scaling 6

3.4 Memory Devices 11

3.5 Opportunities and Challenges for Molecular Circuits 12

4 Molecular Electronic Computing Architectures / James M. Tour, Dustin K. James 1

4.1 Present Microelectronic Technology 1

4.2 Fundamental Physical Limitations of Present Technology 2

4.3 Molecular Electronics 3

4.4 Computer Architectures Based on Molecular Electronics 4

4.5 Characterization of Switches and Complex Molecular Devices 23

5 Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures / Wolfgang Porod 1

5.2 Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) 2

5.3 Single-Electron Circuits 7

5.4 Molecular Circuits 8

6 Nanocomputer Architectronics and Nanotechnology / Sergey Edward Lyshevski 1

6.2 Brief History of Computers: Retrospects and Prospects 3

6.3 Nanocomputer Architecture and Nanocomputer Architectronics 5

6.4 Nanocomputer Architectronics and Neuroscience 15

6.5 Nanocomputer Architecture 18

6.6 Hierarchical Finite-State Machines and Their Use in Hardware and Software Design 25

6.7 Adaptive (Reconfigurable) Defect-Tolerant Nanocomputer Architectures, Redundancy, and Robust Synthesis 28

6.8 Information Theory, Entropy Analysis, and Optimization 33

6.9 Some Problems in Nanocomputer Hardware-Software Modeling 34

7 Architectures for Molecular Electronic Computers / James C. Ellenbogen, J. Christopher Love 1

7.3 Approach and Objectives 17

7.4 Polyphenylene-Based Molecular Rectifying Diode Switches: Design and Theoretical Characterization 18

7.5 Novel Designs for Diode-Based Molecular Electronic Digital Circuits 27

8 Spintronics

Spin-Based Electronics / Stuart A. Wolf, Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova, Daryl Treger 1

8.1 Spin Transport Electronics in Metallic Systems 2

8.2 Issues in Spin Electronics 6

8.3 Potential Spintronics Devices 10

8.4 Quantum Computation and Spintronics 13

9 QWIP: A Quantum Device Success / Kwong-Kit Choi 1

9.2 QWIP Focal Plane Array Technology 2

9.3 Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures 4

9.4 Transport Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures 15

9.5 Noise in Semiconductor Nanostructures 23

9.6 Voltage-Tunable QWIPs 32

9.7 Quantum Grid Infrared Photodetectors 34

Section 3 Molecular Electronics: Fundamental Processes

10 Molecular Conductance Junctions: A Theory and Modeling Progress Report / Vladimiro Mujica, Mark A. Ratner 1

10.2 Experimental Techniques for Molecular Junction Transport 3

10.3 Coherent Transport: The Generalized Landauer Formula 4

10.4 Gating and Control of Junctions: Diodes and Triodes 9

10.5 The Onset of Inelasticity 12

10.6 Molecular Junction Conductance and Nonadiabatic Electron Transfer 12

10.7 Onset of Incoherence and Hopping Transport 15

10.8 Advanced Theoretical Challenges 18

11 Modeling Electronics at the Nanoscale / Narayan R. Aluru, Jean-Pierre Leburton, William McMahon, Umberto Ravaioli, Slava V. Rotkin, Martin Staedele, Trudy van der Straaten, Blair R. Tuttle, Karl Hess 1

11.2 Nanostructure Studies of the Si-SiO[subscript 2] Interface 2

11.3 Modeling of Quantum Dots and Artificial Atoms 7

11.4 Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotechnology 17

11.5 Simulation of Ionic Channels 25

12 Resistance of a Molecule / Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, Supriyo Datta 1

12.2 Qualitative Discussion 3

12.3 Coulomb Blockade? 8

12.4 Nonequilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) Formalism 12

12.5 An Example: Quantum Point Contact (QPC) 15

12.A MATLAB Codes 20

Section 4 Manipulation and Assembly

13 Nanomanipulation: Buckling, Transport, and Rolling at the Nanoscale / Richard Superfine, Michael Falvo, Russell M. Taylor, II, Sean Washburn 1

13.2 Instrumentation Systems: The Nanomanipulator and Combined Microscopy Tools 2

13.3 Nanomanipulation for Mechanical Properties 6

14 Nanoparticle Manipulation by Electrostatic Forces / Michael Pycraft Hughes 1

14.2 Theoretical Aspects of AC Electrokinetics 2

14.3 Applications of Dielectrophoresis on the Nanoscale 17

14.4 Limitations of Nanoscale Dielectrophoresis 27

15 Biologically Mediated Assembly of Artificial Nanostructures and Microstructures / Rashid Bashir 1

15.2 Bio-Inspired Self-Assembly 4

15.3 The Forces and Interactions of Self-Assembly 5

15.4 Biological Linkers 6

15.5 State of the Art in Bio-Inspired Self-Assembly 11

15.6 Future Directions 25

16 Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks / Damian G. Allis, James T. Spencer 1

16.2 Bonding and Connectivity 3

16.3 Molecular Building Block Approaches 13

Section 5 Functional Structures and Mechanics

17 Nanomechanics / Boris I. Yakobson 1

17.2 Linear Elastic Properties 4

17.3 Nonlinear Elasticity and Shell Model 5

17.4 Atomic Relaxation and Failure Mechanisms 8

17.5 Kinetic Theory of Strength 12

17.6 Coalescence of Nanotubes as a Reversed Failure 13

17.7 Persistence Length, Coils, and Random FuzzBalls of CNTS 15

18 Carbon Nanotubes / Meyya Meyyappan, Deepak Srivastava 1

18.2 Structure and Properties of Carbon Nanotubes 2

18.3 Computational Modeling and Simulation 3

18.4 Nanotube Growth 12

18.5 Material Development 16

18.6 Application Development 18

19 Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes / Dong Qian, Gregory J. Wagner, Wing Kam Liu, Min-Feng Yu, Rodney S. Ruoff 1

19.2 Mechanical Properties of Nanotubes 3

19.3 Experimental Techniques 20

19.4 Simulation Methods 29

19.5 Mechanical Applications of Nanotubes 39

20 Dendrimers

An Enabling Synthetic Science to Controlled Organic Nanostructures / Donald A. Tomalia, Karen Mardel, Scott A. Henderson, G. Holan, R. Esfand 1

20.2 The Dendritic State 9

20.3 Unique Dendrimer Properties 22

20.4 Dendrimers as Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanomedical Devices 23

20.5 Dendrimers as Reactive Modules for the Synthesis of More Complex Nanoscale Architectures 27

21 Design and Applications of Photonic Crystals / Dennis W. Prather, Ahmed S. Sharkawy, Shouyuan Shi 1

21.2 Photonic Crystals

How They Work 3

21.3 Analogy between Photonic and Semiconductor Crystals 3

21.4 Analyzing Photonic Bandgap Structures 5

21.5 Electromagnetic Localization in Photonic Crystals 7

21.6 Doping of Photonic Crystals 8

21.7 Microcavities in Photonic Crystals 10

21.8 Photonic Crystal Applications 10

22 Nanostructured Materials / Airat A. Nazarov, Radik R. Mulyukov 1

22.2 Preparation of Nanostructured Materials 2

22.3 Structure 5

22.4 Properties 19

23 Nano- and Micromachines in NEMS and MEMS / Sergey Edward Lyshevski 1

23.1 Introduction to Nano- and Micromachines 2

23.2 Biomimetics and Its Application to Nano- and Micromachines: Directions toward Nanoarchitectronics 4

23.3 Controlled Nano- and Micromachines 7

23.4 Synthesis of Nano- and Micromachines: Synthesis and Classification Solver 8

23.5 Fabrication Aspects 11

23.6 Introduction to Modeling and Computer-Aided Design: Preliminaries 13

23.7 High-Fidelity Mathematical Modeling of Nano- and Micromachines: Energy-Based Quantum and Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetics 13

23.8 Density Functional Theory 18

23.9 Electromagnetics and Quantization 21

24 Contributions of Molecular Modeling to Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology / Donald W. Brenner, O.A. Shenderova, J.D. Schall, D.A. Areshkin, S. Adiga, J.A. Harrison, S.J.

Stuart 1

24.1 Molecular Simulations 2

24.2 First-Principles Approaches: Forces on the Fly 12

24.3 Applications 13.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0849312000

OCLC:

49927040