Nanoscale Phenomena: Basic Science to Device Applications

✍ Scribed by Morinobu Endo (auth.), Zikang Tang, Ping Sheng (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nanotechnology is the result of the continuing technological trend toward device miniaturization and the characterization, manipulation, and fine control of structure and function at diminishing length scales. A large class of nanoscale materials can be stable even though they are far from the lowest-energy thermodynamic state, and many possess novel properties unattainable in bulk. These trends are supported by the increasing sophistication of characterization and fabrication tools such as the scanning tunneling microscope and the transmission electron microscope, which allow the resolution and manipulation of single atoms and molecules. Nanoscale Phenomena: Basic Science to Device Applications presents selected lectures from the Third Workshop of the Croucher Advanced Study Institute on Nano Science and Technology, and showcases contributions from world-renowned researchers. Chapters fall into four major categories: Nanostructured Carbon and its Applications, Quantum Dots and Molecular Spintronics, Nanomaterials Design and Synthesis, and Molecular Electronics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Science and Technology of Nanocarbons....Pages 3-7
Catalytically-Grown Carbon Nanotubes and Their Current Applications....Pages 9-13
Transparent Conducting Films by Using Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 15-28
Raman Spectroscopy on Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 29-39
Interface Design of Carbon Nano-Materials for Energy Storage....Pages 41-47
Formation Mechanism of 0.4,nm Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in CoAPO-5 Single Crystals....Pages 49-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Nanodevices and Maxwell’s Demon....Pages 59-81
Manipulating Electron Spins in an InGaAs/InAlAs Two-Dimensional Electron Gas....Pages 83-98
Continuum Modelling of Nanoscale Hydrodynamics....Pages 99-116
Defect in Zinc Oxide Nanostructures Synthesized by a Hydrothermal Method....Pages 117-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Towards Surface Science Studies of Surfaces Formed by Molecular Assemblies Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 133-137
Electronic Transport Through Metal Nanowire Contacts....Pages 139-148
Synthesis and Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Nitride Nanostructures....Pages 149-177
Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy for Nannomaterials....Pages 179-184
Fabrication of Photovoltaic Devices by Layer-by-Layer Polyelectrolyte Deposition Method....Pages 185-189
Optical Properties of Arrays of Iodine Molecular Chains Formed Inside the Channels of AlPO 4 -5 Zeolite Crystals....Pages 191-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Quantum Manipulation at Molecule Scale....Pages 201-208
Silicon-Based Nano Devices for Detection of DNA Molecules....Pages 209-215
From Simple Molecules to Molecular Functional Materials and Nanoscience....Pages 217-234
First-Principles Method for Open Electronic Systems....Pages 235-243
Back Matter....Pages 245-248

✦ Subjects

Nanotechnology;Optical and Electronic Materials;Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;Biophysics/Biomedical Physics