Nanoscale Phenomena: Basic Science to Device Applications

ISBN-13: 9781441925084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 250 str.

Zikang Tang; Ping Sheng

Opis

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.

Spis treści

-Science and Technology of Nanocarbon. -Catalytically Grown Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications. -An Alternative for Existing Indium-Tin-Oxide Transparent Conducting Film: Carbon Nanotube Film. -Carbon Nanotube Based Nanoelectromechanical Systems. -Raman Spectroscopy on Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. -Interface Design of Carbon Nano-Materials for Energy Storage. -Controlling Spin Coherence with Semiconductor Nanostructures. -Generating and Manipulating Spins in Semiconductors. -Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon. -Spintronics and Nanomagnetics. -Manipulation of Electron Spins in a Semiconductor Rashba System. -Quantum Size Effects Induced Novel Properties in Quasi-2D Electronic System. -Continuum Modelling of Nanoscale Hydrodynamics. -Tuning The Kondo Effect of a Single Magnetic Ion Adsorbed on Au(111) Surfaces by Changing its Chemical Environments. -Nanocrystal Molecules. -Chemical Transformations in Nanocrystals. -Designing Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging. -Designing Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Device Applications. -Studies on Molecular Interfaces Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. -Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticle. -Electrical-Transport Measurements on Individual Metal and Semiconductor Nanowires. -Controlled Synthesis And Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Nitride Nanostructures. -Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials. -Defects in ZnO Nanostructures Synthesized by a Hydrothermal Method. -Electrical Transport in Circular and Hexagonal ZnO Nanowires. -A New Class Of Luminescent Alkynyl Gold(III) Cyclometalated Complexes - Synthesis, Characterization, Electrochemical, Photophysical, Theoretical and Electroluminescence Studies. -Fabrication Of Photovoltaic Devices By Layer-By-Layer Polyelectrolyte Deposition Method. -Mechanical Properties and Thermal Expansion of a Composite of AlN Nanowires and Nanocrystalline Al. -Chemical Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals. -Nanoscience from Carbon Nanotubes to Single-Molecule Biophysics. -DNA Translocation Through Solid State Nanopores. -Quantum Manipulation at the Molecular Scale. -Silicon-Based Nano Devices For Detection Of DNA Molecules. -From Simple Molecules to Molecular Functional Materials and Nanoscience. -Time Dependent Quantum Transport Through Nano-Devices. -Detecting Double-Stranded DNA with Full Solid-State Nanopore Devices. -Detection of Molecular Charges Using Silicon-on-Insulator Based Nanowire Field-Effect-Transistors. -First-Principles Method For Open Electronic Systems.