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Understanding the nanotechnology revolution / by Edward L. Wolf, Manasa Medikonda.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783527664863
  • 3527664866
  • 9783527411092
  • 3527411097
  • 9783527664894
  • 3527664890
  • 9781280663178
  • 1280663170
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding the nanotechnology revolution.DDC classification:
  • 620.5 23
LOC classification:
  • T174.7 .W65 2012
NLM classification:
  • QT36.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Discovery, Invention, and Science in Human Progress -- Smaller Is More, Usually Better, and Sometimes Entirely New! -- Systematics of Scaling Things Down: = 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 ư -- Nanophysics and Nanotechnology of High-Density Data Storage -- Single-Electron Transistors and Molecular Electronics -- Quantum Computers and Superconducting Computers -- Looking into the Future -- Notes -- Index.
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Front Matter -- Discovery, Invention, and Science in Human Progress -- Smaller Is More, Usually Better, and Sometimes Entirely New! -- Systematics of Scaling Things Down: = 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 ư -- Nanophysics and Nanotechnology of High-Density Data Storage -- Single-Electron Transistors and Molecular Electronics -- Quantum Computers and Superconducting Computers -- Looking into the Future -- Notes -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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