Nanotechnology / edited by Gregory L. Timp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Timp, Gregory L., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanotechnology.

Physics.

Materials science.

Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

Physics, general.

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

Local Subjects:

Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

Nanotechnology.

Physics, general.

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 696 pages)

Edition:

First edition 1999.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1999.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Miniaturization has revolutionized human affairs by making possible inexpensive integrated electronic circuits comprised of devices and wires with sub-micrometer dimensions. These integrated circuits are now ubiquitous, controlling everything from our automobiles to our toasters. Continued miniaturization, beyond sub-micrometer dimensions, seems likely. And so we are compelled to explore science and technology on a new, yet smaller scale: the nanometer scale. This volume is a survey of the machinery and science of the nanometer scale. Its twenty-two contributing authors, drawn from many different disciplines including atomic physics, microelectronics, polymer chemistry, and bio-physics, delineate the course of current research and articulate a vision for the development of the nanometer frontiers in electronics, mechanics, chemistry, magnetics, materials, and biology. They reveal a world thirty years hence where motors are smaller than the diameter of a human hair; where single-celled organisms are programmed to fabricate materials with nanometer precision; where single atoms are used for computation, and where quantum chaos is the norm. Aimed at the level of comprehension of at least a junior- or senior- level undergraduate science (biology, chemistry, physics, or engineering) student, the book provides a survey of developments within the breadth of the nanotechnology field. The book is thus intended for both students and researchers in tunneling microscopy, polymer chemistry, bio-physics, atomic physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, condensed matter physics, biology, lithography, and chaos. Mathematical derivations have been minimized, but not eliminted. The book contains many illustrations, some in color.

Contents:

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.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9781461205319

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