Nanotechnology / Edition 1

by Gregory L. Timp

Overview

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 biophysics, 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 at least a junior- or senior- level undergraduate in biology, chemistry, physics, or engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387983349
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/21/1998
Series:	AIP-Press S
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	700
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (G. Timp); 2. Nano-electronics for Advanced Computation and Communication (G. Timp, R.E. Howard, and P.M. Mankiewich); 3. Nanostructures in Motion: Micro-Instruments for Moving Nanometer-Scale Objects (N.C. MacDonald); 4. Limits of Conventional Lithography (D.M. Tennant); 5. Fabrication of Atomially Controlled Nanostructures and Their Device Application (H. Sakaki); 6. Chemical Approaches to Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Materials (Louis Brus); 7. Nanotechnology in Carbon Materials (M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, and R. Saito); 8. Self-Assembly and Self-Assembled Monolayers in Micro- and Nanofabrication (James L. Wilbur and George M. Whitesides); 9. Biocatalytic Synthesis of Polymers of Precisely Defined Structures (Timothy J. Deming, Vincent P. Conticello, and David A. Tirell); 10. Atom Optics: Uisng Light to Positron Atoms (Jabez J McClelland and Mara Prentiss); 11. From The Bottom Up: Building Things with Atoms (Don Eigler); 12. Physical Properties of Nanometer-Scale Magnets (David D. Awschalom and Stephan von Molnar; 13. Single-Electron Transport Through a Quantum Dot (Leo P. Kouwenhoven and Paul L. McEuen); 14. Chaos in Ballistic Nanostructures: Part I-Theory (Harold U. Baranger); Part II: Experiment (R.M. Westervelt); 15. Semiconducting and Superconducting Physics Devices in the InAs/AlSb Materials System (Herbert Kroemer and Evelyn Hu)