Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology

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Features

  • Provides comprehensive information, data, and references written by top experts from institutions leading the way in this technological revolution
  • Covers basic concepts, theory, materials, and fabrication
  • Explores current challenges, advanced research results, and future breakthroughs
  • Examines NEMS applications, including those in medicine, information technology, the environment, energy systems, national security, and transportation
  • Contains more than 200 defining terms and over 500 illustrations
  • Summary

    Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are understood, designed, made, and used. With contributions from a host of world-class experts and pioneers in the field, this handbook sets forth the fundamentals of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), studies their fabrication, and explores some of their most promising applications. It provides comprehensive information and references for nanoscale structures, devices, and systems, molecular technology and nanoelectromechanical theory, and promises to become a standard reference for the field.

    Table of Contents

    There's Plenty of Room at the Top, Richard P. Feynmann, Caltech, California, USA
    Room at the Bottom, Plenty of Tyranny at the Top, Karl Hess, University of Illinois USA
    SECTION 2, MOLECULAR AND NANO-ELECTRONICS: CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES, AND DESIGNS
    Engineering Challenges in Molecular Electronics, Gregory N. Parsons, North Carolina State University, USA
    Molecular Electronic Computing Architectures, James M. Tour and Dustin K. James,, Rice University, Texas, USA
    Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures, Wolfgang Porod, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
    Nanocomputer Architectronics and Nanotechnology, Sergey Lyshevski, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
    Architectures for Molecular Electronic Computers, James C. Ellenbogen and J. Christopher Love The MITRE Corporation, Virginia, USA
    Spintronics-Spin-based Electronics, S.A. Wolf, DARPA/DSO, Virginia, USA, A.Y. Chtchelkanova and D. M. Treger Strategic Analysis, Inc., Virginia, USA,
    QWIP: A Quantum Device Success, K.K. Choi, Maryland, USA
    SECTION 3, MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS: FUNDAMENTALS PROCESSES
    Molecular Conductance Junctions: A Theory and Modeling Progress Report, Vladimiro Mujica and Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern University, ILLINOIS, USA
    Modeling Electronics at the Nanoscale, Narayan R. Aluru, Jean-Pierre Leburton, William McMahon, Umberto Ravaioli, Slava V. Rotkin, Trudy van der Straaten, and Karl Hess, University of Illinois, USA and Martin Staedele, Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, and Blair R. Tuttle, Pennsylvania State University, USA
    Resistance of a Molecule, Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, and Supriyo Datta, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
    SECTION 4, MANIPULATION AND ASSEMBLY
    Nanomanipulation: Buckling, Transport and Rolling at the Nanoscale, Richard Superfine, Michael Falvo, Russell M. Taylor II, and Sean Washburn, University of North Carolina, USA,
    Nanoparticle Manipulation by Electrostatic Forces, Michael Pycraft Hughes, University of Surrey, UK
    Biologically Mediated Assembly of Artificial Nano and Micro- Structures, R. Bashir, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
    Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks, Damian G. Allis and James T. Spencer, Syracuse University, New York, USA
    SECTION 5, FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES AND MECHANICS
    Nanomechanics, Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University, Texas, USA
    Carbon Nanotubes, M. Meyyappen and Deepak Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA
    Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes, Dong Qian, Gregory J. Wagner, and Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA Min-Feng Yu Zyvex Corporation, Texas, USA and Rodney S. Ruoff, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
    Dendrimers - An Enabling Synthetic Science to Controlled Organic Nanostructures, D. A. Tomalia and R. Esfand, Dendritic Nanotechnologies Ltd., Michigan, USA K. Martel, S. Henderson and G. Holan, Starpharma Limited, Melbourne, Australia,
    Design and Applications of Photonic Crystals, Dennis W. Prather, Ahmed S. Sharkawy, and Shouyuan Shi, University of Delaware, USA
    Nanostructured Materials, Airat A. Nazarov and Radik R. Mulyukov, Russian Academy of Sciences
    Nano- and Micromachines in NEMS and MEMS, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
    Contributions of Molecular Modeling to Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology, D.W. Brenner, O.A. Shenderova, J. D. Schall, D.A. Areshkin, S. Adiga, North Carolina State University, USA, J.A. Harrison, US Naval Academy, USA , and S.J. Stuart, Clemson University, USA

    Editorial Reviews

    "Developments in science and engineering at the nanoscale are accelerating at a breathtaking pace. Students increasingly need to have an understanding of the new tools, techniques, terminology and knowledge on which these advances are based.

    "This invaluable, wide-ranging and scholarly 'Handbook of Nanoscience' provides exactly that. It brings together the accumulated knowledge of the real luminaries from top nanoscience laboratories, universities and institutes, who have each contributed chapters on topics essential to the aspiring nanoscientist. These topics range from dendrimers to nanoparticle manipulation, and nanotubes to electronics modelling at the nanoscale - it is, in fact, the complete 'toolkit'.

    "This book is an absolute 'must' for all students of nanoscience who are serious about their subject, and supplies the perfect foundation on which to build real specialist knowledge.
    -Ottilia Saxl, Institute of Nanotechnology, Scotland, UK

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