Understanding the nanotechnology revolution /

• Main Author: Wolf, E. L.
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Medikonda, Manasa
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH ; 2012.
• Subjects: Nanotechnology.; Electronic books.

Table of 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.