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Instrumental community : probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology / Cyrus C.M. Mody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mody, Cyrus C. M. (Cyrus Cawas Maneck), 1974- author.
- Series:
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nanotechnology--Research--United States.
- Nanotechnology.
- Nanotechnology--Research--Europe.
- Scanning probe microscopy.
- Intellectual cooperation--Case studies.
- Intellectual cooperation.
- Scientists--United States--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Scientists--Europe--Interviews.
- Nanotechnology--Research.
- Europe.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Communities, Innovation, and Knowledge 1
- 2 Inventing a Community 27
- 3 Adopting, Adapting, Departing: Early STM at IBM and at Bell Labs 59
- 4 Variation and Selection: Probe Microscopy Comes to California 87
- 5 Digital Instruments: Commercialization in a Changing Community 125
- 6 Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology 163.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262298186
- 026229818X
- 128332170X
- 9781283321709
- OCLC:
- 760886275
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613321701
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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