Many efforts have been made in the last two decades using novel nanotechnology and nanoscience knowledge in order to get nanomaterials with determined functionality. This book focuses on polymer ...

The book series Advanced Micro & Nanosystems (AMN) provides cutting-edge reviews and detailed case studies by top authors from science and industry, covering technologies, devices and advanced systems ...

In this interview, Mervyn Miles, professor emeritus at the University of Bristol speaks about the history and technology behind Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM). In ...

This book surveys the social implications of nanotechnology from the perspective of a diffuse international movement that distrusts market economies and worries that any new technology will be ...

Nanotechnology for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics outlines in detail the fundamental solid-state physics concepts that explain the new properties of matter caused by this reduction of solids to ...

There are, however, some blind spots in the book, notably about nanotechnology in Asia. The carbon nanotube was discovered by Sumio Iijima at NEC in 1991, as Edwards reports, but what do Iijima ...

It covers ALD's application to microelectronics (MEMS) and nanotechnology; many important new and emerging applications; thermal processes for ALD growth of nanometer thick films of semiconductors, ...