Nanoscale Devices - Fundamentals and Applications / Edition 1

by Rudolf Gross, Anatolie Sidorenko, Lenar Tagirov

Overview

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Nanoscale Devices - Fundamentals and Applications, Kishinev, Moldova, 18-22 September 2004

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402051050
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/13/2006
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #233
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Science Against Nontrivial Threat.- Surface Acoustic Wave Studies for Chemical and Biological Sensors.- The Experience of Utilizing the Explosives Detection System on the Basis of Neutron Radiation Analysis Together with X-Ray Units at the Airport “Pulkovo” in St.-Petersburg.- Thermodynamic Principles of Artificial Nose Based on Supramolecular Receptors.- Molecular Detection with Magnetic Labels and Magnetoresistive Sensors.- WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS DETECTION TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES.- Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Based on Half-Metallic Oxides.- MEMS Tunable Dielectric Resonator.- Ultra-Thin Spin-Valve Structures Grown on the Surface-Reconstructed GaAs Substrate.- NOVEL IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVICES.- Negative U Molecular Quantum Dot.- Configuring a Bistable Atomic Switch by Repeated Electrochemical Cycling.- Realization of an N-Shaped IVC of Nanoscale Metallic Junctions Using the Antiferromagnetic Transition.- PI-SHIFT EFFECT AND FERROMAGNET/SUPERCONDUCTOR NANOSCALE DEVICES.- Josephson Effect in Composite Junctions with Ferromagnetic Materials.- Depairing Currents in Bilayers of Nb/Pd89Ni11.- Superconductor-Ferromagnet Heterostructures.- Superconducting/Ferromagnetic Nanostructures: Spin Fluctuations and Spontaneous Supercurrents.- COHERENCE EFFECTS IN F/S AND N/F NANOSTRUCTURES.- Proximity Effect and Interface Transparency in Nb-based S/N and S/F Layered Structures.- Properties of S/N Multilayers with Different Geometrical Symmetry.- Andreev Reflection in Ballistic Superconductor-Ferromagnet Contacts.- Superconductor-Insulator Transition in a PbZSn1-ZTe:In Solid Solution.- ADVANCED SENSORS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION.- Thermoelectricity of Low-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials.- Organic Semiconductors – More Efficient Material for Thermoelectric InfraredDetectors.- Submillimeter Radiation–Induced Persistent Phoonductivity in Pb1-xSnxTe(In).- Quasioptical Terahertz Spectrometer Based on a Josephson Oscillator and a Cold Electron Nanobolometer.- NOVEL MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS.- Origin of the Resistive Transition Broadening for Superconducting Magnesium Diboride.- Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Single Bi Nanowires.- Some Applications of Nanocarbon Materials for Novel Devices.- NANOMATERIALS AND DOMAINS.- Nanocrystalline Iron-Rare Earth Alloys: Exchange Interactions and Magnetic properties.- The Influence of Applied Fields on the Nucleation and Growth of Heteroepitaxial Carbon Films.