Nanostructures - Fabrication and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Zhen-Chao Dong, Hitoshi Nejo (auth.), Hitoshi Nejo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: NanoScience and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The main theme of this book is the exploration the underlying physical laws that permit the fabrication of nanometer-scale structures. As researchers attempt to fabricate nanometer-scale structures which do not exist per se, they must still employ the natural laws to fabricate them through processes such as self-assembly. So it turns out that our techniques for fabrication of nanometer-scale structures are not artificial but actually rely on the natural laws. We even find that nanometer-scale structures, e.g. fullerenes, are fabricated in nature beneath the surface of the Earth. This fact may be called the ubiquity of the nanometer-scale structures. The topics presented in the book include: scanning probe-related and near-field techniques, nanolithography, self assembling and design of novel nanostructures, as well as new nanodevices and their application.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Atomic-Scale Chains: Fabrication and Evaluation Technologies....Pages 1-63
Nanolithography....Pages 65-97
Adsorption Behavior of Single Molecules on Surfaces Formed by Molecular Assemblies Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 99-121
Fabricating Nanostructures via Organic Molecular Templates....Pages 123-150
Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 151-215
Calculating Transport Properties of Nanometer-Scale Systems: Nanodevice Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Organic Molecules....Pages 217-249
Molecular Wires....Pages 251-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-292

✦ Subjects

Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter; Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering