About the Book
Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are understood, designed, made, and used. With contributions from a host of world-class experts and pioneers in the field, this handbook sets forth the fundamentals of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), studies their fabrication, and explores some of their most promising applications. It provides comprehensive information and references for nanoscale structures, devices, and systems, molecular technology and nanoelectromechanical theory, and promises to become a standard reference for the field.
Table of Contents:
There's Plenty of Room at the Top, Richard P. Feynmann, Caltech, California, USA
Room at the Bottom, Plenty of Tyranny at the Top, Karl Hess, University of Illinois USA
SECTION 2, MOLECULAR AND NANO-ELECTRONICS: CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES, AND DESIGNS
Engineering Challenges in Molecular Electronics, Gregory N. Parsons, North Carolina State University, USA
Molecular Electronic Computing Architectures, James M. Tour and Dustin K. James,, Rice University, Texas, USA
Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures, Wolfgang Porod, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Nanocomputer Architectronics and Nanotechnology, Sergey Lyshevski, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Architectures for Molecular Electronic Computers, James C. Ellenbogen and J. Christopher Love The MITRE Corporation, Virginia, USA
Spintronics-Spin-based Electronics, S.A. Wolf, DARPA/DSO, Virginia, USA, A.Y. Chtchelkanova and D. M. Treger Strategic Analysis, Inc., Virginia, USA,
QWIP: A Quantum Device Success, K.K. Choi, Maryland, USA
SECTION 3, MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS: FUNDAMENTALS PROCESSES
Molecular Conductance Junctions: A Theory and Modeling Progress Report, Vladimiro Mujica and Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern University, ILLINOIS, USA
Modeling Electronics at the Nanoscale, Narayan R. Aluru, Jean-Pierre Leburton, William McMahon, Umberto Ravaioli, Slava V. Rotkin, Trudy van der Straaten, and Karl Hess, University of Illinois, USA and Martin Staedele, Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, and Blair R. Tuttle, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Resistance of a Molecule, Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid, and Supriyo Datta, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
SECTION 4, MANIPULATION AND ASSEMBLY
Nanomanipulation: Buckling, Transport and Rolling at the Nanoscale, Richard Superfine, Michael Falvo, Russell M. Taylor II, and Sean Washburn, University of North Carolina, USA,
Nanoparticle Manipulation by Electrostatic Forces, Michael Pycraft Hughes, University of Surrey, UK
Biologically Mediated Assembly of Artificial Nano and Micro- Structures, R. Bashir, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks, Damian G. Allis and James T. Spencer, Syracuse University, New York, USA
SECTION 5, FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES AND MECHANICS
Nanomechanics, Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University, Texas, USA
Carbon Nanotubes, M. Meyyappen and Deepak Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA
Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes, Dong Qian, Gregory J. Wagner, and Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA Min-Feng Yu Zyvex Corporation, Texas, USA and Rodney S. Ruoff, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Dendrimers - An Enabling Synthetic Science to Controlled Organic Nanostructures, D. A. Tomalia and R. Esfand, Dendritic Nanotechnologies Ltd., Michigan, USA K. Martel, S. Henderson and G. Holan, Starpharma Limited, Melbourne, Australia,
Design and Applications of Photonic Crystals, Dennis W. Prather, Ahmed S. Sharkawy, and Shouyuan Shi, University of Delaware, USA
Nanostructured Materials, Airat A. Nazarov and Radik R. Mulyukov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Nano- and Micromachines in NEMS and MEMS, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Contributions of Molecular Modeling to Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology, D.W. Brenner, O.A. Shenderova, J. D. Schall, D.A. Areshkin, S. Adiga, North Carolina State University, USA, J.A. Harrison, US Naval Academy, USA , and S.J. Stuart, Clemson University, USA
