Unconventional Approaches to Nanostructures with Applications in Electronics, Photonics, Information Storage and Sensing Vol. 776 : 2003 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium Proceedings

Nanostructures (or structures with at least one dimension between 1 and 100nm) have attracted steadily growing interest due to their peculiar, fascinating properties and unique applications relative to the bulk materials. Many interesting new phenomena are associated with nanometersized dimensions; well-established examples include quantized excitation or emission, Coulomb blockade, single-electron tunneling, metal-insulator transition, and superparamagnetism. By using these nanostructures as functional components, various prototypes of devices have been successfully fabricated recently, with notable examples including quantum-dot lasers and single-electron transistors. The ability to generate these small structures is central to the advancement of many areas in modern science and technology (e.g., electronics, photonics, and information storage). Although some nanostructures can be generated using advanced nanolithographic techniques (e.g., e-beam writing), the development of these methods into practical routes to large numbers of nanostructures, rapidly and at low cost, still requires great ingenuity. Chemical methods and self assembly seem to provide a more promising strategy for the formation of nanostructures in terms of cost, throughput, and potential for large-scale production. The papers in this volume cover research ranging from the fundamental chemistry and physics of nanostructures, to their interactions with light and electricity, to application in novel devices and technologies. Topics include: quantum dots and nanoparticles; one-dimensional nanostructures; molecular systems; patterning and colloidal self assembly; and properties and applications.Velev, O. D. is the author of 'Unconventional Approaches to Nanostructures with Applications in Electronics, Photonics, Information Storage and Sensing Vol. 776 : 2003 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium Proceedings', published 2003 under ISBN 9781558997134 and ISBN 155899713X.