Nanoscale Devices Fabrication, Functionalization, and Accessibility from the Macroscopic World /

• Main Author: Cerofolini, Gianfranco. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology,
• Subjects: Materials.; Engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Material Science.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Engineering, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92732-7

The evolution of the microelectronics is controlled by the idea of scaling. However, the scaling of the device size below 10 nm is expected to be impossible because of physical, technological and economic reasons. Fundamental considerations (based on Heisenberg's principle, Schrd̲inger equation...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Matter on the nanoscale
• 2. Top-down paradigm to miniaturization
• 3. Physical limits to miniaturization
• 4. The crossbar structure
• 5. Crossbar production
• 6. The litho-to-nano link
• 7. Functional molecules
• 8. Grafting functional molecules
• 9. Examples
• 10. Self-similar nanostructures
• 11. Molecular motors.-12. Nanobiosensing
• 13. Abstract technology.