Nanoscale Science and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780792350484 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 355 str.

Hermann Rohrer; N. Garcia; M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Opis

This volume summarizes six years of active research sponsored by NATO with the participation of the leading experts.

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Preface. Nanowires. Low Voltage Nonlinear Conductance of Gold Nanowires: Room Temperature Coulomb Blockade Effect? J.L. Costa-Krämer, et al. Simple Model for Force Fluctuations in Nanowires; H. Olin, et al. Real Time Control of Nanowire Formation; L. Samuelson, et al. Forces. Forces in Scanning Probe Microscopy; E. Meyer, et al. Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy by AFM Reveals Details of Polymer Structure; M. Rief, et al. Nanomagnetism. Quantum Resonance of the Magnetisation in a Single-Crystal of Clusters in Mn12-Acetate; B. Barbara, et al. Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization in Nano-Scale Magnets; D. García-Pablos, et al. Mesoscopic Systems. Transport Mesoscopic Superconductors and Superconducting/Normal Metal Contacts; T. Claeson, et al. Giant In-Plane Optical Anisotropy of Semiconductor Heterostructures with No-Common-Atom; O. Krebs, et al. Strong Electron Tunneling in Mesoscopic Tunnel Junctions; J. König, et al. Spin Textures in Quantum Dots; J.J. Oaknin, et al. Photonics. Theory of Near Field Optics: Surface Imaging by a Levitating Particle; A. Madrazo, M. Nieto-Vesperinas. Photons and Local Probes; O. Marti, et al. Quo Vadis, Near Field Optics? D.W. Pohl, et al. Light Emission in Silicon Nanostructures; D.J. Lockwood. Confined Electrons and Photons: A Domain where New Physical Phenomena, Device Concepts and Widescale Applications Converge; C. Weisbuch, et al. Quantum Optics of Atomic Systems Confined in a Dielectric Environment; M. Ducloy. Optical Properties on InP Quantum Wires Grown in Hollow Cylindrical Channels of Chrysotile Asbestos; S.G. Romanov, C.M. Sotomayor Torres. Clusters. Metal Clusters and Atomic Nuclei; T.P. Martin, et al. Solid-Liquid Interfaces. Nanoscale Probes of the Solid-Liquid Interface; H. Siegenthaler, et al. Special Issues: Microscopy and Particles. The First 130 Years of Electron Microscopy: Focusing, Imaging, Spectroscopy and Lithography; A. Howie. The Three Families of Elementary Particles; E. Fernández. Author Index. Subject Index.