AuthorWolf, E. L
TitleUnderstanding the nanotechnology revolution / Edward L. Wolf, Manasa Medikonda
Imprint Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, 2012
Descript x, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Discovery, invention, and science in human progress -- Smaller is more, usually better, and sometimes entirely new! -- Systematics of scaling things down: L = 1 m  1 nm -- 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 superconductiong computers -- Looking into the future


SUBJECT

  1. Nanotechnology

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