3., revised and enlarged Edition - September 2008 39.90 Euro 2008. VIII, 226 Pages, Softcover 101 Fig. (1 Colored Fig.) - Textbook - ISBN-10: 3-527-40800-2 ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40800-9 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin
Short description Clearly structured and easily readable introduction that provides graduate students and cross-discipliners with a sound knowledge of growth and characterization techniques, as well as applications ranging from nanooptics, electronics and nanobiotechnology to MEMs.
From the contents 1 Mesoscopic and microscopic physics
2 Physics of nanostructures (quantum and classical effects) Morphology Electronic structure - Optical properties - Magnetic properties - Transport phenomena - Heterostructures Problems to chapter 2
3 Generation and manipulation of nanostructures Top-down methods - Nanostructures via photons and lithographical methods - Nanoimprint technology - Nanostructures via raster probe methods -Bottom up methods - Epitaxial growth - Self organization - Deposition of selected cluster matter Problems to chapter 3
4 Characterisation of nanostructures Optical microscopy - Simple light microscopy - Bright- and dark field microscopy - Fluorescence and phase contrast microscopy - Confocal microscopy - Brewster angle microscopy - Raster microscopies - Electron microscopy - Scanning probe microscopies - Near field microscopy - New advanced microscopies - Linear and nonlinear spectroscopy - Diffraction methods - Emission methods Problems to chapter 4
5 Nano architecture Layered systems - Colloidal solutions and crystals - Light-based gratings - Coulomb crystals
6 Applications Optics - Integrated optics, nanooptics and nonlinear optics - Optical and magnetical data storage - Photonic crystals - Ultrashort time dynamics in nanostructures Electronics - Optoelectronics - Molecular and nano-electronics - Quantum computers - Biology and soft matter - Characterization of elementary units - Nanobionics and nano-biotechnology - Molecular nanostructures - Micro- and nanomechanics Problems to chapter 6
