Understanding the nanotechnology revolution /
"A unique introduction for general readers to the underlying concepts of nanotechnology, covering a wide spectrum ranging from biology to quantum computing. The material is simply presented and includes a few mathematical equations, but not mathematical derivations. It also outlines the major c...
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH ,
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Table of Contents:
- Discovery, invention, and science in human progress
- Smaller is more, usually better, and sometimes entirely new!
- Systematics of scaling things down: L=1m->1nm
- Biology as successful nanotechnology
- The end of scaling: the lumpiness of all matter in the universe
- Quantum consequences for the macroworld
- Some natural and industrial self-assembled nanostructures
- Injection lasers and billion-transistor chips
- The scanning tunneling microscope and scanning tunneling microscope revolution
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): nanophysics of spin 1/2
- Nanophysics and nanotechnology of high-density data storage
- Single-electron transistors and molecular electronics
- Quantum computers and superconducting computers
- Looking into the future.