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• Coverpage
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I
• 1 Introduction and overview
• 1.1 What is nanotechnology?
• 1.2 Sizes of things
• 1.3 Important length scales: breaking a wire
• 1.4 The structure of this book
• 2 Solid state physics in a nutshell
• 2.1 Free electrons
• 2.2 Nearly free electrons
• 2.3 Chemical approaches to electronic structure
• 2.4 More modern electronic structure methods
• 2.5 Lattice dynamics: phonons
• 2.6 Summary and perspective
• 2.7 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 3 Bulk materials
• 3.1 Electronic types of solids
• 3.2 Metals
• 3.3 Inorganic semiconductors
• 3.4 Band insulators
• 3.5 Correlated oxides
• 3.6 Molecular structures
• 3.7 Summary and perspective
• 3.8 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 4 Fabrication and characterization at the nanoscale
• 4.1 Characterization
• 4.2 Materials growth
• 4.3 Material removal
• 4.4 Patterning
• 4.5 Summary
• 4.6 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 5 Real solids: defects, interactions, confinement
• 5.1 Defects
• 5.2 Interfaces and surfaces
• 5.3 Screening
• 5.4 Excitons
• 5.5 Junctions between materials
• 5.6 Quantum wires
• 5.7 Quantum dots
• 5.8 Summary and perspectives
• 5.9 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• Part II
• 6 Charge transport and nanoelectronics
• 6.1 Transport terminology
• 6.2 Kinetic concepts
• 6.3 Hall effect
• 6.4 Quantum transport
• 6.5 The classical MOSFET
• 6.6 State-of-the-art
• 6.7 Beyond CMOS
• 6.8 Summary and perspective
• 6.9 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 7 Magnetism and magnetoelectronics
• 7.1 Definitions and units
• 7.2 Magnetic order
• 7.3 Energy and magnetic configurations
• 7.4 Magnetism at small scales
• 7.5 Magnetic data storage and magnetoelectronics
• 7.6 The future: spintronics
• 7.7 Nanomagnetism: other applications
• 7.8 Summary and perspective
• 7.9 Further reading
• Exercises
• 8 Photonics
• 8.1 Electromagnetic radiation in a nutshell
• 8.2 Lasers
• 8.3 A brief overview of optical communications
• 8.4 Photonic band gap systems
• 8.5 Nanophotonics: near-field optics
• 8.6 Nanophotonics: plasmonics
• 8.7 Summary
• 8.8 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 9 Micro- and nanomechanics
• 9.1 Basics of solid continuum mechanics
• 9.2 Tribology
• 9.3 Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• 9.4 Nanoelectromechanical systems
• 9.5 Summary
• 9.6 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 10 Micro- and nanofluidics
• 10.1 Basic fluid mechanics
• 10.2 A digression: dimensional analysis
• 10.3 Laminar flow
• 10.4 Surface interactions
• 10.5 Electrolytes
• 10.6 Microfluidic devices
• 10.7 Nanofluidics
• 10.8 Summary
• 10.9 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 11 Bionanotechnology: a very brief overview
• 11.1 Basic elements and tools of bionano
• 11.2 Leveraging biology
• 11.3 Nanotechnology and biosensing
• 11.4 Frontiers
• 11.5 Summary
• 11.6 Suggested reading
• Exercises
• 12 Nanotechnology and the future
• 12.1 Nanotechnology and energy
• 12.2 Dangers of nanotechnology?
• 12.3 Prognosis
• 12.4 Summary
• 12.5 Suggested reading
• Appendix Common quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics results
• A.1 A review of perturbation theory
• A.2 The vector potential
• A.3 The Einstein relation
• References
• Index